Bob Berryhill Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I photographed this bird in my backyard in Birmingham AL in June of 2019. I think the bill is cone shaped, it's body is perched-like and it's primary color is gray. That got me to the sparrow family but I could not find a black/gray and white one that looks quite like this one. I appreciate your help and any suggestions you have for being able to identify the bird. I call myself a photographer, new to identifying the species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackburnian Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 A Carolina Chickadee, another hallmark of eastern backyard birding. I personally never get tired of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerri Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Here is a link to a website All About Birds that is good for helping identify species https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Savannah_Sparrow/id 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akandula Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 8 minutes ago, Kerri said: Here is a link to a website All About Birds that is good for helping identify species https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Savannah_Sparrow/id @Bob Berryhill, I think Kerri meant to put this link to the All About Birds website to identify the Carolina Chickadee: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Chickadee/id I also think that the All About Birds website is the best to identify birds across the U.S. and Canada. If you want additional information, you can go to https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/carolina-chickadee and various other free online websites. An interesting fact about the Carolina Chickadee: It is one of the extremely few endemics to the continental U.S.! Happy birding... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 @Bob Berryhill, I can see why you tried to ID this as a sparrow. However, sparrow's cone-shaped bills are much thicker at the base than this chickadees. Also, sparrows are mostly brown more than gray. Most sparrows have pink or light colored legs, although a few do have dark ones like this chickadee. Few people notice the link on AAB to search by bird family. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/taxonomy Here are the sparrows, for comparison: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/taxonomy/Passerellidae 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarscadden Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 agreed we have them in our back yard as well....and thank you all for providing the links and the differences between the chicadee and sparrow. I for one feel that this kine of ID provides a lot more information that we can use later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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