Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 8-2000
| Common name: |
Prothonotary Warbler |
| Scientific name: | Protonotaria citrea |
| Date: | 24 Sept 2000 |
| Time: | 09:00 |
| Length of time observed: | 10 min |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | ? |
| Sex: | male |
| Location: | Lyttle Ranch, Beaver Dam Wash |
| County: | Washington |
| Latilong: | |
| Elevation: | |
| Distance to bird: | 12 m |
| Optical equipment: | |
| Weather: | 65 F, clear, 3-10 mph wind |
| Light Conditions: | clear sky and sun relatively high |
| Detailed description of bird: | Chunky warbler w/ bright yellow head, breast, and belly. Undetail coverts white. Wings bluish-gray white with no other markings (e.g. wingbars). Heavy bill. No facial markings. Back olive-yellow. |
| Song or call & method of delivery: | No vocalization |
| Behavior: | Bird was foraging in willows along small stream & water impoundment. Spent most time 0.5 - 1.0 m above ground, usually close to water's edge. |
| Habitat: | Willows along watercourse w/overstory of cottonwoods in the bottom of (Beaver Dam) wash. |
| Similar
species and how were they eliminated: |
No species similar. |
| Previous experience with this & similar species: | Extensive experience with this species as I grew up birding in Louisiana, where this species is an abundant breeder. |
| References consulted: | Dunn and Garrett 1997 (A Field Guide to Warblers of North America)) for age/sex determination. |
| Description from: | Notes taken at time of sighting |
| Observer: | Robert Dobbs |
| Observer's address: | 234 E. Cobble Creek Dr. #4, Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| Observer's e-mail address: | rcdobbs@ilstu.edu |
| Other
observers who independently identified this bird: |
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| Date prepared: | 14 Oct 2000 |
| Additional material: | Photo |
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