RARman Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Shot this at Bowdoin NWR in MT. The images are greatly cropped. This was a solitary bird. Didn't offer any close photos. thanks for the help. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dred Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Boy it certainly looks like one. Cool bird! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Brain Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 The pink beak and pink legs is puzzling, but I don't know what else it would be! Strange looking critter for sure!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akiley Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Is it just me or does this bird look really off structurally for YH Blackbird? It’s shape looks really odd, chunky and short-tailed. That bill is troubling me also. If this bird didn’t have a yellow head and breast, YB Blackbird wouldn’t be the first thing that came to mind... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akiley Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 (edited) No age or sex of YHBL should normally show yellowish coloring all the way down the belly, seeming to reach the undertail coverts. Edited November 12, 2018 by akiley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akiley Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 I guess it could be a YHBL somehow, but I’m not convinced yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim W Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Bobolink? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvoryBillHope Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Compare with this bird: https://www.hbw.com/ibc/photo/yellow-headed-blackbird-xanthocephalus-xanthocephalus/unusually-marked-leucistic-male 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARman Posted November 13, 2018 Author Share Posted November 13, 2018 Wow! Looks very close. I think you have confirmed my suspicions. Thanks, Gary ---* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesome55dove Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 It looks like an Evening Grosbeak to me...with some issues. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooFly Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Looks like someone’s lunch to me!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creeker Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 42 minutes ago, TooFly said: Looks like someone’s lunch to me!!!! LOL! yah, how long until a Cooper's Hawk spots that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 11 hours ago, Bird Brain said: The pink beak and pink legs is puzzling, but I don't know what else it would be! Strange looking critter for sure!! I guess the lack of pigment can occur on legs and beak too, not just in the feathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigeon Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Lack of pigment in legs and beak often does actually occur in birds with leucism. Probably a juvenile as these birds do not fare very well in nature, as TooFly and Creeker mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 I'm wondering whether it's possible that normal Yellow-headed Blackbirds have yellow pigment over much of their bodies that's hidden by melanin, but this bird shows it because it doesn't have melanin there. On the other hand, the bird in the photo IBH linked has white on the back where this bird has some yellowish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creeker Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 6 hours ago, Pigeon said: . Probably a juvenile as these birds do not fare very well in nature, as TooFly and Creeker mentioned. https://goo.gl/images/iapSr1 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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