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[sgmfla]

Saw these at Okeeheelee Nature Center in West Palm Beach, FL Sunday 4/1 around 2 pm.
Don't think I have ever seen this bird before.
I have looked and looked to ID this bird, but nothing really fits...
I suspect it is something easy and I am just overlooking the obvious?
Would you please help ID this bird, and tell me the identifying characteristics so I can continue to learn ?

THanks!

[jsa47]

maybe female red-winged blackbird.

[creeker]

Yep, jsa47 nailed it. Here's some of the field marks I use: Looks like a sparrow but is a little too big and bill is too long, Strong pale supercillium (eyebrow,) orangish throat, very strongly streaked breast.

[Noble Huntsman]

when you said okeeheelee, i immediately thought of the sound a red-winged blackbird makes, ha

[sgmfla]

Thank you all, very helpful