Sighting Record for Utah

Common name:	Northern Parula
Scientific name:	Parula americana
Date:	Sep 23 & 24, 2008
Time:	late afternoon
Length of time observed:	10 min
Number:	1
Age:	?
Sex:	either female or first-winter male ?
Location:	Red HIlls Golf Course, St. George
County:	Washington
Latilong:	19
Elevation:	~ 850 m
Distance to bird:	3 - 10 m
Optical equipment:	8 x 42 binoculars, 300 mm Nikkor lens
Weather:	clear and calm
Light Conditions:	clear afternoon light
Description: Size of bird:
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(Description:) Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics:	Observed in a mixed warbler flock in the cottonwoods along the east side of fairway 8, occasionally moving into adjacent mesquites to feed. Relocated and photographed on 9/24/08. Apparently a female or first-fall male. Description. Relatively small warbler, with yellow throat, white undersides and bluish uppersides. Crown, nape, wings and upperside of tail blue, with a distinct green mantle. Wings with two prominent white wingbars. Eye dark with dark eye-line and white eye arcs above and below eye. Thin bill with dark culmen and yellow lower mandible. Yellow chin, throat, and upper breast, with a rufous breast band with a indistinct black upper border. Legs gray with pale yellowish feet. Underside of tail white with a black terminal band. (see photos)
Song or call & method of delivery:	none heard
Behavior:
Habitat:	urban golf course
Similar species and how were they eliminated:	Tropical Parula eliminated by presence of eye-arcs and rufous and black breastband, and no black loral area.
Previous experience with this & similar species:	yes
References consulted:
Description from:	Notes made later
Observer:	Rick Fridell
Observer's address:	Hurricane, UT
Observer's e-mail address:	rfridell@redrock.net
Other observers who independently identified this bird:
Date prepared:	12-16-09
Additional material:	Photos
Additional_Comments:	information copied from field notes.