I saw this today in Northern Utah, at first I thought it was a sparrow, but none of the sparrows in the Sibley guide have black bills. Is it a red-winged female blackbird?
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Posted 12 May 2012 - 04:54 AM
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Posted 12 May 2012 - 04:58 AM
Confirmed.
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Posted 12 May 2012 - 11:28 AM
Seconded.
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Posted 12 May 2012 - 06:53 PM
Is it really??? Wow!
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Posted 12 May 2012 - 08:18 PM
Yeah, they fool a lot of people!
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Posted 12 May 2012 - 09:00 PM
When you are trying to ID a Sparrow and it just doesn't look quite like a Sparrow, chances are that it's a female RWBL. Certainly one of the most annoying birds in bird-dom. 
We call them Not-a-Sparrows.
We call them Not-a-Sparrows.
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Posted 13 May 2012 - 02:56 AM
Not-A-Sparrow - LOVE it!!!
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Posted 16 May 2012 - 10:51 PM
Wow, I'm getting better and better at identifying!
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