Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 2017-44
| Common name: |
Palm Warbler |
| Scientific name: | Setophaga palmarum |
| Date: | June 30, 2017 |
| Time: | 7:00 |
| Length of time observed: | 30 sec |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | NA |
| Sex: | NA |
| Location: | Ponderosa CG |
| County: | Juab |
| Latilong: | 39.7670644,-111.7143686 |
| Elevation: | 6800 ft |
| Distance to bird: | 10-15 ft |
| Optical equipment: | 10x42 bino |
| Weather: | clear, calm |
| Light Conditions: | good, just before sunrise with sun behind me |
| Description: Size of bird: | About 5in, comparable to other warblers |
| (Description:) Basic Shape: | comparable to other warblers |
| (Description:) Overall Pattern: | brownish-gray |
| (Description:) Bill Type: | small, narrow, pointed |
|
(Description:)
Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics: |
extensive red or rufous cap, bright yellow under tail coverts, yellow throat. |
| Song or call & method of delivery: |
none |
| Behavior: | flitting around the branches picking at the branches, never stopping or holding still long enough to even consider trying to photo. Flew across the road and repeated action, then disappeared and could not relocate even on following days. |
| Habitat: | Thick round bushes 8-10 ft high and dia. possibly chokecherry or similar located along a very small quiet stream |
| Similar
species and
how were they eliminated: |
ruby-crowned kinglet, cap was more rufous, no wing
bars, yellow throat and under tail Virginia's warbler, red cap more extensive, yellow throat not breast, upper tail coverts brown green-tailed towhee, rufous cap about the same but laying flat, much smaller, throat and under-tail yellow not yellow green |
| Previous
experience with this & similar species: |
Found and photographed the one on the UP rail trail in summit Co. Apr. 29 2016 |
| References consulted: | I bird pro |
| Description from: | From memory |
| Observer: | Neldon Kunz |
| Observer's address: | 3980 Cowan Way, West Valley City, UT |
| Observer's e-mail address: | ** |
| Other observers who independently identified this bird: | |
| Date prepared: | July 4, 2017 |
| Additional material: | |
| Additional comments: |