Belted kingfishers are back in town!

By Dan Potts, Salt Lake County Fish & Game Association Jordan River Commission Technical Advisory Committee   They’re back in town again! The kingfishers I mean. The belted kingfisher is a relatively small but flamboyant migrant bird. It announces its presence with a loud and sometimes repeating “dry rattle” as they mostly fly over water. The appearance of males […]

Our Common Hummingbirds

By Dan Potts | Salt Lake County Fish & Game Association Jordan River Commission Technical Advisory Committee     There are about 750 different kinds of hummingbirds, and all of them are only found here in the Americas! Here in the Salt Lake Valley we are only visited by two species, the broad-tailed and the black-chinned. The […]