Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 2002-30
| Common name: |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Scientific name: | Dendroica pensylvanica |
| Date: | 9-29-02 |
| Time: | 0930 |
| Length of time observed: | 5 minutes |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | Immature? |
| Sex: | Female? |
| Location: | Lytle Ranch orchard, Beaver Dam Wash |
| County: | Washington |
| Latilong: | 19 |
| Elevation: | 850 m |
| Distance to bird: | ~5 m |
| Optical equipment: | 10 x 42 Leica binoculars |
| Weather: | clear and calm |
| Light Conditions: | bright mid-morning light |
| Detailed description of bird: |
Head: Bright yellowish green crown; grayish face and cheeks, whiter on
throat; black eye with distinct complete white eye-ring; small, sharp black
bill. Upperparts: Bright yellowish green unmarked back (connecting with crown)and rump. Wings dark with two distinct yellowish wing bars and secondaries and tertials showing lighter yellowish edges. Upperside of tail dark. Black legs. Underparts: Entirely pale, whiter on lower chest and belly, grayer on sides and flanks, with light yellowish tinge across vent area. Underside of tail light with black lateral and terminal edges. [see photos] |
| Song or call & method of delivery: | Silent |
| Behavior: | Actively foraging throughout large ash tree. |
| Habitat: | In orchard area at Lytle Ranch, surrounded by cresote/Joshua tree desert, mesquite/acacia habitat and riparian corridor along Beaver Dam Wash. |
| Similar
species and how were they eliminated: |
Yellowish green crown and back, yellow wing bars, complete white eye-ring and white undersides distinguish this warbler from all other species. |
| Previous experience with this & similar species: | I have seen immature Chestnut-sided Warblers on many occasions, including a very similar individual that spent a week at the Quail Creek inflow area in late September 2001. |
| References consulted: | Birds of N.A. (Kaufman) to determine scientific name. |
| Description from: | Notes made later |
| Observer: |
Steve Summers, Priscilla Summers, Kristen Comella, Rick Fridell |
| Observer's address: | 3505 West 290 North, Hurricane UT, 84737 |
| Observer's e-mail address: | rfridell@redrock.net ; summers@cedarcity.net |
| Other
observers who independently identified this bird: |
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| Date prepared: | 10-02-02 General Public |
| Additional material: | Photos |
| Additional comments: | Description is taken from notes I made on the evening of 9-29-02. Steve Summers took the photographs. |