Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 2012-18
| Common name: |
Tennessee Warbler |
| Scientific name: | Oreothylypis peregrina |
| Date: | May 19, 2012 |
| Time: | 10 AM |
| Length of time observed: | ~10 Minutes in hand |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | Second Year |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | Red Butte Canyon Banding Station |
| County: | Salt Lake |
| Latilong: | |
| Elevation: | |
| Distance to bird: | In Hand |
| Optical equipment: | None used |
| Weather: | Bright sunny (but cool) morning (60 F) |
| Light Conditions: | Bright |
| Description: Size of bird: | Golden-crowned Kinglet size |
| (Description:) Basic Shape: | Small warbler species |
| (Description:) Overall Pattern: | Olive back and and head with white underparts washed with light yellow. |
| (Description:) Bill Type: | Warbler bill (small & pointed) |
|
(Description:)
Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics: |
(Transferred From Field Notes) - Overall: olive head and back, top side of tail from olive to blackish-olive. - Darkest olive on crown. - Underparts white with tinges of yellow on upper belly and flanks. - Clear dark eyeline with obvious yellow-white supercilium. - White to creamy-white undertail coverts (see photos). - Dark Legs - VERY short tail - NO wingbars - Primaries blackish with thin white edging (From study of photographs) - Dark bill (typical warbler shape and size) - Dark Eye - Feet blackish yellow - Throat and chin white with yellow-olive wash - Tail underside white |
| Song or call & method of delivery: | None heard |
| Behavior: | |
| Habitat: | Riparian corridor of Red Butte Canyon Creek. |
| Similar
species and
how were they eliminated: |
Orange-crowned Warbler: From this more common species by lack of bright yellow/olive in undertail coverts and lack of blurry streaked olive throat/breast/belly/flanks. |
| Previous
experience with this & similar species: |
Considerable |
| References consulted: | Sibley Guide & Jon Dunn (Warblers) |
| Description from: | Notes taken at time of sighting |
| Observer: | Jack Skalicky |
| Observer's address: | 511 First Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84103 |
| Observer's e-mail address: | ** |
| Other observers who independently identified this bird: | Jon Gale (banding station volunteers) |
| Date prepared: | May 20, 2012 |
| Additional material: | Photos |
| Additional_Comments: |