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Utah Birds (1 Viewer)
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Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
1 Violet-green Swallow
5 Western Wood Pewee
Pass on the others (2 & 4 are flycatchers, but not sure which; 3 one of the New World 'sparrows', but again not sure which)
5 Western Wood Pewee
Pass on the others (2 & 4 are flycatchers, but not sure which; 3 one of the New World 'sparrows', but again not sure which)
birdmeister
Well-known member
I agree mostly, but all the flycatchers are W. Wood-pewees. Unfortunately I can't help with the juvenile sparrow either. It's one of the Chipping/Clay-colored/Brewer's group, though maybe not Brewer's.
tom baxter
Well-known member
1 violet green swallow
2 western wood pewee
3 chipping sparrow, brewers would not have the dark line behind the eye and clay-colored would not have dark lores
4 black phoebe , immature, you can see the orange wing bars as well as less erect posture while perching
5 western wood pewee
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Isn't Black Phoebe only marginal in the far SW of Utah, and on low ground, not in mountains? A non-migratory species, so it has to be somewhere that is reasonably warm in winter for insect food.
Whereabouts exactly in Utah, please Ed?
The Bird Nuts
Birding Duo
Head shape and tail length on #4 are wrong for a phoebe.
And the lack of any black on the underparts certainly eliminates Black Phoebe.
