Rare Birds Seen in Davis County

Sightings Accepted by the Utah Bird Records Committee
(includes records through 2005)


American Black Duck
  • 16 Oct 1965 - near Farmington Bay, Davis Co
  • 8 Nov 1947 - Ogden Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Davis Co. (banded bird collected during hunting season) | UOS report |
  • 22 Nov 1951 - Farmington Bay, Davis Co. (specimen in U of U collection)
  • 15 Oct 1967 - Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Davis Co. (banded bird collected during hunting season) | UOS report |

Garganey

  • 27 Oct 1996 -Antelope Island Causeway, Davis Co, by Terry Sadler  | UOS report |

Harlequin Duck

  • 1 Nov 1991 - Farmington Bay, Davis Co. by  Craig Kneedy, Terry Sadler, Ella Sorensen (one female) | UOS report |
  • 25 Sep 1993 - Antelope Island Causeway, Davis Co. by Ella Sorensen, Craig Kneedy, others (photo by Craig Kneedy - one female) similar sightings in same area through May 1995. | UOS report |

Black Scoter

  • 13,14 Nov 1982 - west end of the Antelope Island Causeway, Great Salt Lake, Davis Co. by Michael Tove, Alan Grenon, Ella Sorensen, Mark Bromley, Merrill Webb, others (photo - adult female)
  • 7-13 Nov 2004 - Antelope Island Causeway, Davis Co. by Joel and Kathy Beyer (an adult female)   | Birdnet Report | Sight Record | UOS report |

Red-necked Grebe

  • 3 Dec 1970 - between Syracuse and North end of Antelope Island, Davis Co. by Leah Foerster

Brown Pelican

  • 27 May 1944 - Farmington Bay Project, Davis Co. by Claude T. Barnes

Little Blue Heron

  • Fall 1974 - Farmington Bay, Davis Co. by Kashin (immature white phase)

Tricolored Heron

  • 15 May 1947 - Farmington Bay Refuge, Davis Co. One seen by Calvin D. Wilson.
  • 19 Jun 1973 - Farmington Bay, Davis Co., by Dorothy Platt  (photo) 

Wood Stork

  •  [1930s - Observations in Box Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Millard, and Piute Counties]

Little Gull

Lesser-Black-backed Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull 

  • 12 Nov 2000 - Farmington Bay WMA, Davis Co., by Terry Sadler (juvenile/1st winter)  | Sight Record | UOS report |
  • 18 Nov 2000 - Antelope Island Causeway, Davis Co., by Terry Sadler (first winter)  | Sight Record | UOS report |

Black-billed Cuckoo

  • 9 Jul 1951 - Bountiful, Davis Co., by Behle and Selander  (female specimen, with eggs in the oviducts  - U of U collection)

Snowy Owl

  • 5 Apr. 1953 - south of Centerville, Davis Co.(Sight record)
  • 26 Jan 1967 - 4 miles west of Syracuse, Davis Co., (specimen in U of U collection)

Chimney Swift

  • 7 May 1912 - west of Kaysville, Davis Co., by Claude T. Barnes (specimen in U of U collection)

Vaux's Swift

  • 28 Oct 1939 - Jordan Fur Farm, Davis Co., reported by Woodbury (dried mummy found in a stovepipe - probably from that spirng or summer - U of U collection

Least Flycatcher

  • 1 Jun 1991 - Ogden River, Ogden, Davis Co., by Craig Kneedy, Stanley Heath  (one adult)

Great Crested Flycatcher

  • 3 Oct 1992 - West Point, Davis Co., by Craig Kneedy  (one adult) | UOS report |

Veery

  • 21 May 1983 - Ranch at Antelope Island, Davis Co., by Donald A. Hadley, John Belman, others (adult)

Northern Parula

  • 5 Sep 1968 - Farmington Bay, Davis Co., by Gleb Kashin (Audubon Field Notes 23 (1): 87.1969 - reported without details)

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

McCown's Longspur

  • 6 Jan 1988 - Layton, Davis Co., by Craig Kneedy (one adult male) | UOS report |
  • 11 Sep 2002 - on the road to Garr Ranch, on Antelope Island, Davis Co., by Chris Wood, Leader of a Wings Tours   | Birdnet ReportSight Record |

     
  

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