Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 2019-31
| Common name: |
Tennessee Warbler |
| Scientific name: | Oreothlypis peregrina |
| Date: | Sep 20, 2019 |
| Time: | 11:00 am |
| Length of time observed: | 1 minute |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | Immature type |
| Sex: | Unknown |
| Location: | Utah Lake Parkway Trail (North Shore) Saratoga Springs, Utah. |
| County: | Utah |
| Latilong: | 40.362616, -111.883648 |
| Elevation: | 4488' |
| Distance to bird: | 12 feet |
| Optical equipment: | First noticed with naked eye and Vortex Viper binos 8x42. |
| Weather: | Partly cloudy and windy. |
| Light Conditions: | Nice flat lighting to have ability to see details on the bird. |
| Description: Size of bird: | 4.75" |
| (Description:) Basic Shape: | Warbler |
| (Description:) Overall Pattern: | Light yellow below with white undertail, darker olive above. |
| (Description:) Bill Type: | Longish, straight sharp bill. |
|
(Description:)
Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics: |
Small light yellow bird underneath with sharp bill, thin pale eyebrow with distinct dark eyeline, whitish undertail coverts, short tailed, no streaking on underside. Darker olive back, wings and upper side of tail. |
| Song or call & method of delivery: | None observed. |
| Behavior: | Foraging in dense patch of weeds along the trail with small flock of American Goldfinches |
| Habitat: | Lakeshore with open grassy areas, large trees and weedy fields. |
| Similar
species and
how were they eliminated: |
Orange-crowned Warblers have a narrow, broken eye-ring, faint poorly defined pale eyebrow and eyeline, blurry streaks on sides of chest, undertail coverts distinctly yellow, no wing bars. |
| Previous
experience with this & similar species: |
I've seen many Orange-crowned Warblers in Utah as they are quite common here (probably hundreds of observations). Have seen Tennessee Warblers in Utah, Florida and Costa Rica. |
| References consulted: | Sibley, National Geographic Field Guide, On line resources. |
| Description from: | Notes taken at the time of the sighting |
| Observer: | Rachel LeBlanc |
| Observer's address: | Herriman, UT |
| Observer's e-mail address: | ** |
| Other observers who independently identified this bird: | Unknown. |
| Date prepared: | Sep 28, 2019 |
| Additional material: | |
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