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Great Salt Lake Bird Festival - May
17-21, 2012
Bird Index:
The Utah Birds website had a new "Bird
Index" feature. The index is similar to those in the back of bird
field guides and has links to the pictures, Utah profiles, songs and
calls, feature and bird of the month articles, photo of the month pages,
and for rare birds, the sightings lists. Hopefully this will make
the contents of the many thousands of website pages, more easily
accessable.
Recent Rare Sightings:
 Clickable
thumbnail photos have been added to the "Recent
Rare Bird Sightings List" so you can easily see pictures of the rare birds
that have recently been seen. Also added to the page are links to the other
sightings of the same species along with reports and descriptions of these
birds.
Feature Article:
 Ted
Fitzgerald took photos of some nesting robins capturing a couple
of fortuitous photos of the "fecal
sac" phenomenon. Here's a link of
the series from incubation to fledglings producing the "Next
Generation of Robins."
Records Committee:
 Number 448
on the Utah Checklist is -- the
Purple Sandpiper found by Rick Fridell at
Sand Hollow State Park in
Washington County. Many birders got to see and
photograph this "First
State Record"
Google Gadget:
Robin Tuck has improved his gadget that brings up
the latest "New Bird Photos," "Picture of the Month" and the latest
"Hotline Photos from our website to your Google Personalized Homepage.
If you have a personalized homepage or would like to create one you can
get the details on Robin's website.
Bird Humor:
Here are some links to the "Bird
Humor" section of our feature pages:
- "Change is in the Air" (A stealthy
Starling is up to something).
- "Mom's Favorite" (How
you can tell you're NOT).
- "Snack-lifting "
(A clever little gull is hooked on junk food).
- "Heavenly Smiley Faces" (Smiley faces
are use in emails and...)
Bird Songs:
Podcasts for Birders are available for FREE DOWNLOAD
through the
iTunes
website. Kevin Colver's "soundscape" recordings include "Sunrise at
Fish Srings," and "Starvation Creek," in Utah as well as bird
sounds from places in Texas, California and Alaska.
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