Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 2018-26
| Common name: |
Pyrrhuloxia |
| Scientific name: | Cardinalis sinuatus |
| Date: | May 22, 2018 |
| Time: | 6:00 PM |
| Length of time observed: | 1 Minute |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | Adult |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Springdale, Utah (Riparian land just beyond the back of the Holiday Inn Express) |
| County: | Washingon |
| Latilong: | 37*11'4"N,112*59'59"W |
| Elevation: | 3900' |
| Distance to bird: | 25' |
| Optical equipment: | Zeiss 10x42 |
| Weather: | Clear |
| Light Conditions: | Good |
| Description: Size of bird: | 8" |
| (Description:) Basic Shape: | Cardinal-shaped |
| (Description:) Overall Pattern: | Gray-brown with red around the face, throat and on wing |
| (Description:) Bill Type: | Heavy Seed-eating |
|
(Description:)
Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics: |
Gray-brown on the body, including the crest, red face and a little red on the throat. Dark tip on the crest, which may have been red--the light made it difficult to determine. Heavy, yellow bill. Dark eye. Touch of red in the wing. There was not, however, the heavy red on the chest. The chest was gray-brown. Perhaps a young male not yet in full plumage? |
| Song or call & method of delivery: | No sounds |
| Behavior: | Briefly perched on small, low branch of a pine tree. Flew on after a minute. |
| Habitat: | High, dry forest |
| Similar
species and
how were they eliminated: |
Shape of a female cardinal, but with a yellow, instead of a red bill and with less red in the wing. The bird I observed also had red under the throat, not black and the throat marking was a little larger. |
| Previous
experience with this & similar species: |
Seen in South Texas |
| References consulted: | Sibley's Birds of North America |
| Description from: | Notes made later |
| Observer: | Jennifer R. Golden |
| Observer's address: | 23958 Copenhagen Street |
| Observer's e-mail address: | ** |
| Other observers who independently identified this bird: | Martha Vandervoort |
| Date prepared: | May 31, 2018 |
| Additional material: | |
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