Verification of Unusual
Sight Record
For Utah
Rec. # 2023-71
| Common name: |
Ovenbird |
| Scientific name: | Seiurus aurocapilla |
| Date: | 10/22/2023 |
| Time: | 8:24am |
| Length of time observed: | Specimen found dead and collected |
| Number: | 1 |
| Age: | ? |
| Sex: | ? |
| Location: | Third District Courthouse building (450 S State). |
| County: | Salt Lake |
| Latilong: | 40.758977, -111.889235. |
| Elevation: | 4,300ft~ |
| Distance to bird: | 0 (found dead and collected) |
| Optical equipment: | NA |
| Weather: | Mostly sunny, calm, 60F~ |
| Light Conditions: | unknown |
| Description: Size of bird: | small passerine |
| (Description:) Basic Shape: | passerine |
| (Description:) Overall Pattern: | mostly a mix of brown, black and white |
| (Description:) Bill Type: | insectivore |
|
(Description:)
Field Marks and Identifying Characteristics: |
Specimen found dead and collected by Tracy Aviary's SLACS(Salt Lake
Avian Collision Survey)volunteer Angie Trumbo. Specimen was then turned
in and identified as an Ovenbird. It has been frozen and will be donated
to the Utah Museum of Natural History. When I learned of the
observation, I requested a photo and date/location for submission of the
record. Photo shows a brown warbler with a white torso streaked with
black and an eyering consistent with an Ovenbird. Addition photos can be
obtained if needed. (see photo) |
| Song or call & method of delivery: | None (Specimen found dead and collected) |
| Behavior: | Specimen found dead and collected |
| Habitat: | Urban |
| Similar
species and
how were they eliminated: |
Elimination: Waterthrushes-should show a bold eyebrow
and eyeline Hermit/Swainson's Thrushes-Bigger and chunkier, lack crown stripes |
| Previous
experience with this & similar species: |
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| References consulted: | |
| Description from: | From photo(s) taken at the time of the sighting |
| Observer: | Bryant Olsen |
| Observer's address: | 84102 |
| Observer's e-mail address: | ** |
| Other observers who independently identified this bird: | Cooper Farr |
| Date prepared: | 11/3/23 |
| Additional material: | Photos |
| Additional comments: |