Sighting Record for Utah

Common name:	Northern Parula
Scientific name:	Setophaga americana
Date:	1/27/2018
Time:	~1630
Length of time observed:	five minutes
Number:	one
Age:	?
Sex:	?
Location:	Zion National Park - Emerald Pools Trail
County:	Washington
Latilong:
Elevation:
Distance to bird:	less than ten feet
Optical equipment:	8x42 binoculars
Weather:	clear, ~50 degrees
Light Conditions:	bright
Description: Size of bird:	Yellow throat
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(Description:) Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics:	Two white wing bars, bright yellow throat, white breast/underbody, white around eye, yellowish green on upper back. Good looks within ten feet, not a yellow rumped warbler. Gray flank feathers. White around eye.
Song or call & method of delivery:
Behavior:	not shy, came out from cliff side of trail within feet, landed on brush opposite, hung out for five minutes without much movement around
Habitat:	brush
Similar species and how were they eliminated:	Closest similar specie yellow-rumped warbler - this parula had two white wing bars, bright yellow throat/upper breast and bright white below that into lower breast and underbody. Tell-tale yellowish green hue in upper back. No yellow to flank at all, unlike yellow-rumped warblers.
Previous experience with this & similar species:
References consulted:	Sibley - Western Birds
Description from:	Notes taken at the time of the sighting
Observer:	Ian Adams
Observer's address:
Observer's e-mail address:	**
Other observers who independently identified this bird:	Annette Gibert
Date prepared:	1/29/2017
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