Utah Bird Records Committee
(Instituting the New First-state concepts)
  

I've gone over the records in the Provisional List and the Unverified List and picked out some records that we might want to do something about:  (I've edited a version of the Auxiliary Lists to get the lists below:
   

• Garganey *   | Sightings |
  1 accepted, and  there's a hotline sighting by Rick Fridell, 20 Apr 2009 - Sand Hollow State Park, Washington Co., (ask to submit a record?)
    
•  Mississippi Kite * | Sightings |  1 accepted record, a second that was close but not accepted with explicit reference to FSR higher requirements.  Re-Submit 2008-08
    
• Gray Hawk * | Sightings | one accepted
   
• Bar-tailed Godwit * | Sightings | one accepted An additional hotline report - 7 Jul 2000 - Deseret Ranch, Rich Co. by Mark Stackhouse, David Wheeler, others  | Hotline Report |  [? submit a record?]
   
• Elf Owl *  | Sightings |  7 sighting mostly hotline & one accepted-- several hotline reports from known, reputable observers that we might ask to submit a record.
    
• Louisianna Waterthrush   | Sightings |   5 sightings, some have been vetted and found to be wanting. one accepted in 2003 There are others we could check on.  (There are photos from Utah NOT submitted with sight records).
    
• Connecticut Warbler   | Sightings |   Two old records - OK?-- before the Records Committee was established -- , one with a specimen
    
• Field Sparrow * | Sightings |  Only one sighting but seen by many people (I saw this one with Terry Sadler right behind me ticking off the field marks -- if someone took notes at the time, should be request submission of a sight record to the committee based on those notes?).  [...or do we still  need another sighting? -- or sight record? -- to put it on the checklist?]  If the question of sightings vs sight records relating to FSR's, can be asked in favor of two different observers submitting a sight record for the same sighting (same bird) would that be considered to be a second record, should we specify that in the new bylaws section?  Now it speaks of "records," which could include two or more sight records for one specific sighting.   (We bundle sight records together in a single sighting --  for purposes of counting the number of sightings in a ten year period, as a factor in determining if a species should be on the Review List.)
    
• Baird's Sparrow *   | Sightings |    Five sighting but only one accepted.

    Documented by only one sight record and no physical evidence.
  

  Species from the "Unverified Species" list below that we may want to consider
         for Provisional List
 

There may be species on the list below that we may want to consider for the Provisional list?
  

  Unverified Species: (minus the records above)
    Species that have been reported in Utah but have no sight record that has been confirmed  (not on the checklist)

  Established Introduced Species:  
     Introduced species that have an established long term breeding population (included on the state checklist)

  Non-established Introduced Species:
    Introduced species that have not established a viable breeding population   (not on the checklist)

E-mail: records@utahbirds.org