Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 2012-37
| Common name: |
Brown Thrasher |
| Scientific name: | Toxostoma Rufus |
| Date: | 06/02/2012 |
| Time: | 6:15 pm |
| Length of time observed: | 25 seconds |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | |
| Sex: | |
| Location: | Residential area just below Ivins Reservoir. |
| County: | Washington |
| Latilong: | |
| Elevation: | |
| Distance to bird: | 9'. |
| Optical equipment: | Naked eye. |
| Weather: | Sunny/clear |
| Light Conditions: | Excellent |
| Description: Size of bird: | Large, 11" |
| (Description:) Basic Shape: | Long bill and tail. |
| (Description:) Overall Pattern: | Rusty brown back, streaked/white breast |
| (Description:) Bill Type: | Long, straight. Approx length of head. |
|
(Description:)
Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics: |
Rusty-brown back and head. Tail was completely brown. Breast was white with black streaking. Eye was yellow. Bill was approx as long as head and straight. About 11 or 12" in size. |
| Song or call & method of delivery: | None. |
| Behavior: | Feeding on red berries in a bush before bouncing off to the backside and out of sight. |
| Habitat: | Was in a large bush with red berries, in a residential yard. |
| Similar
species and
how were they eliminated: |
Sage- bill was much longer and bird was much larger. Tail was completely brown. Long-billed- bill was straight. |
| Previous
experience with this & similar species: |
I am from Southern Illinois and have seen this species multiple times. |
| References consulted: | None initially. Only after telling my birding partner what I had seen and being told the range of the Brown Thrasher, did I seek out additional reference. Petersen's. |
| Description from: | |
| Observer: | Mike Hearell |
| Observer's address: | 173 W 1825 N, North Ogden, UT 84414 |
| Observer's e-mail address: | ** |
| None. | |
| Date prepared: | 09/15/2012 |
| Additional material: | |
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