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Warbling Vireo Split – Eastern And Western Warbling-Vireos

By Mia McPherson|August 15th, 2025|Categories: Birds, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Western Warbling-Vireos|Tags: American Ornithological Society, AOS, berries, berry, canyon, fruit, mountains, ripe, serviceberries, serviceberry, shrubs, split, summer, Utah Serviceberry, vireo, Vireo swainsoni, vireos, Western Warbling-Vireo|

Some birders may have added a new life bird yesterday when the AOS split the Warbling Vireo into two species: Eastern and Western Warbling-Vireo.

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Spring American White Pelican Portraits

By Mia McPherson|May 29th, 2023|Categories: American White Pelicans, Birds, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American White Pelican, breeding plumage, close up, horn, park, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, pelicans, plate, pond, portrait, split, spring, urban, water|

Before summer begins, I wanted to share these American White Pelican portraits that I took along the shoreline of my local pond.

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Autumn Audubon’s Yellow-rumped Warbler

By Mia McPherson|November 13th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Wood-Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warblers|Tags: adult, Audubon's, autumn, Celtis reticulata, desert, fall, hackberry, migration, Netleaf Hackberry, perched, road, Setophaga coronata, split, warbler, warblers, wood-warblers, Yellow-rumped Warbler|

I seem to have missed out on seeing lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers this year during their fall migration, I saw a few back in late September and early October but haven't seen any for some time.

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Possible Eastern and Western Willet Split in 2017

By Mia McPherson|January 21st, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Utah, Willets|Tags: ABA, adult, American Birding Association, American Ornithological Society, AOS, DNA, Eastern Willet, flight, flying, inornata, semipalmata, shorebirds, species, split, Tringa semipalmata, Tringa semipalmata inornata, Tringa semipalmata semipalmata, Western Willet, Willet|

The question regarding this proposal is... Willet happen?

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Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay – A Familiar Bird with a New Name

By Mia McPherson|July 8th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Cascade Springs, Ophir Canyon, Tooele County, Uinta National Forest, Utah, Wasatch County, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays|Tags: adult, Aphelocoma woodhouseii, behavior, California Scrub-Jay, differences, habitat, jay, jays, name change, oak, perched, pinyon pine, Samuel Washington Woodhouse, scrub-jay, scrub-jays, snow, split, Western Scrub-Jay, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay|

The long-awaited Scrub-Jay split has officially happened! Western Scrub-Jay can be crossed out in a our fields guides and the two new names California Scrub-Jay and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay can be penciled in.

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