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Bird Videos Fluttering Through
Syberspace
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.
Utah Winter Gull Identification:
At the October meeting of the Utah County Birders,
Dennis Shirley gave a presentation on identifying
"Utah Winter Gulls,"
which has now been adapted and expanded for the
Utah Birds
website. It's become a "work in process" and we'd like you to take a
look and give us some feedback on how we can improve it -- and you may be
able to learn to better identify the
winter gulls in Utah at the
same time.
Roseate Spoonbill in
Utah?!:
 Nathan
Robinett from Dallas, Texas sent in a
sight record
with a video for a Roseate Spoonbill, that they saw on a rafting trip
in Cataract Canyon in southern Utah. Utah has only
one vetted record of this species although there is a specimen in the
University of Utah collection and also information on some sightings in
the 1930's.
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"
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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