flock of unknown birds in Alberta Canada in July (1 Viewer)

Hello,
I am looking through some older photos and I found one shot of a flock of 22 birds that flew past me quickly on 11 July while I was looking at birds in an agricultural area south of Edmonton. I never ID'ed these at the time.
I am wondering if these might be American Pipits? That would be a species I have never had a decent sighting of, but I am not sure what else this might be. I have increased the exposure quite I bit on this shot to try and lighten the shadows and see some details of the feathers.

European Starlings- close up photo shows juveniles.

Those are Common Starlings, a species introduced from Europe.

EDIT: crossposted with aeshna

aeshna5 said:

European Starlings- close up photo shows juveniles.

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thanks, that makes sense. I certainly do see European Starlings on occasion; The juvenile plumage is a bit out of my usual experience and one more thing to try and make a note of.

I posted on another thread that Starlings seem to confuse a lot of people in the US.



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