[Birdnet] Summer Tanager, Salt Lake County--Aug 10

[FERGUS, Rob]

While leading a birding tour for the Outdoor Retailers Expo this evening we found a juvenile female Summer Tanager at the entrance gate to the Inland Sea Shorebird Reserve west of the 7200 W exit on I-80 in Salt Lake County.  It was actually perched on the right side of the gate down near the fragmites.  After about a minute it flew off to the east down the canal and into the fragmites.  It was quite a shock to see this bird here in northern Utah at this date, and in such seemingly atypical habitat (not a tree to be seen anywhere).


Rob Fergus
Senior Scientist | Urban Bird Conservation
National Audubon Society
545 Almshouse Road, Ivyland PA 18974

Phone: 215 355 9588 x17





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