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Bald Eagle Day - Feb 6 and 13
Great Backyard Bird
Count - Feb 12-13
Delta
Snow Goose Festival - Feb 18, 19
Rare Birds:
Three rare gulls have been hanging out at the
Antelope Island Causeway. Jack Binch found a
Black-legged Kittiwake on
Friday the 6th of November which brought birders flocking to the causeway.
The next day, Tim Avery discovered a
Little Gull in with the large
flock of Bonapart's Gulls and the kittiwake. AND THEN, on the next
day Kris Purdy and her group found a
Lesser Black-back Gull a
little further to the east of the others. A "seagull" festival in
Utah is probably fitting, in a funny sort a way.
Utahn Wins National
Photography Contest:
And first place goes to...Ted Steinke of
Layton, Utah! The winning photo for the "2009
Refuge Photo Contest" is a picture of two fighting Northern Harriers
taken at the Bear River MBR. Congratulations Ted! (Press
Release - PDF)
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New-born
chicks can look pretty funny and pretty cute. The Utah Birds
website has selected a number of pictures for special awards. So
without any further adieu, here, ladies and gentlemen are the
first ever "Chick Pix
Awards"
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Other pictures of chicks:
Canada Goose,
Mallard,
California Quail,
Pied-billed Grebe,
Western Grebe (2),
Clark's Grebe,
Turkey Vulture,
Osprey,
Golden Eagle,
Prairie Falcon,
Virginia Rail (2),
Sora,
American Coot,
Sandhill Crane,
Killdeer,
Black-necked
Stilt, American
Avocet,
Long-billed Curlew,
Barn Owl,
Western
Screech-Owl,
Great Horned Owl,
Northern
Pygmy-Owl,
Burrowing Owl,
Short-eared Owl,
Northern
Saw-whet Owl,
Common Nighthawk,
Broad-tailed
Hummingbird,
Western Scrub-Jay,
Cliff Swallows,
Barn Swallows,
Mountain Bluebird,
American Robin,
Spotted Towhee,
Black-headed
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Hotlines:
Ever wondered how to put links to
photos,
videos,
directions to locations, etc., in your messages to the
Birdnet or BirdTalk?
Well, a new "Email Tips" page has
been added to the Utah Birds website that will answer some of those
questions. If you have other tips that may be helpful, just send
them in to the webmaster and
we can add them to the page.
UOS Book Reviews:
Several new book reviews have been posted on the
Utah Ornithological Society website. Several
of these books are written by local birders and ornithologists familiar to
the Utah birding community, these are:
Peregrine Quest by
Clayton White, Backyard
Birds of Utah by Bill Fenimore,
Utah’s Featured Birds
and Viewing Sites by Keith Evens and Wayne Martinson and
Hawks from Every Angle,
by Jerry Liguori.
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.
Feature Pages:
Check out the new "Bird
Humor" Section of the "Feature Pages"! Also new in
the "Feature Pages" is a
photo story of a pair of Barn
Swallows somewhere in the Mid-East.
Feature Pages:
Jerry Liguori, an expert in identifying flying
raptors, has sent in an article with excellent photos about the difficult
task of "Ageing Golden
Eagles in Flight" This specifically covers 1 to 3 year-old Golden
Eagles with very similar plumages having white in the wings or tail.
Hotline Photos:
Not since
28 May 1977 has a
Yellow-billed Loon in breeding plumage been documented in Utah...
there have been only nine documented sighting in
Utah...ever!...until now.
Marci Welch sent in some
excellent photos of a Yellow-billed Loon at Jordanelle Reservoir which
sent birders dashing to the remote east shore of the reservoir to try to
find the bird before it continued its flight to the northern coast of
North America. Many birders got to see this rarity and for almost
all, it was a lifer! (Here's
a map of the previous sightings in Utah).
Places to Bird:
Merrill Webb wrote a series of article for the
Utah County Birders newsletter
entitled "Top 20 places in Utah to go birding before I die."
These articles have been incorporated into the "Places
to Bird" pages of the website. Here's
Merrill's top 20 birding locations in
Utah.
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