Help with blackbirds - Florida - USA (1 Viewer)

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Alejandro Tabini

• Jun 29, 2007

• #1

Hi,

I would like some help with the ID of two pictures I took last week at Everglades, Florida, USA.

IMG_45967 for me looks like a Brewer's Blackbird but not sure about it, main features are size (smaller than a grackle), the white eye and dark neck and head.

IMG_45974 for me a Boat-tailed Grackle but would like confirmation about it.

Alejandro

 

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BigRedBirder

Active member

• Jun 29, 2007

• #2

I'm not very good with blackbirds, but the first seems to be a Common Grackle and the second Boat-tailed, like you thought.

 

Gentoo

Guest

• Jun 29, 2007

• #3

First one looks like a Common Grackle to me. The bill is a little thicker than a typical Brewer's Blackbird should be and the iridescence is brighter and there's some bronze around the neck area which Brewer's does not show.

Second bird is a Boat-Tailed Grackle of one of the Gulf Coast races with brown eyes.

 

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Alejandro Tabini

• Jun 29, 2007

• #4

Thank you Brad and Gentoo for your help with this birds.

Alejandro

 

lockbreeze926

Well-known member

• Jun 29, 2007

• #5

I'd agree - first is Common Grackle, second Boat-tailed. A Brewer's Blackbird would be a very good record in Florida.

 

The Falcon

Registered Birder

• Jun 29, 2007

• #6

I agree 1st is a Common Grackle 2nd is a Boat-Tailed Grackle. Brewers Blackbirds wouldn't have that heavy of bills.

 

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• Jun 29, 2007

• #7

lockbreeze926 said:

I'd agree - first is Common Grackle, second Boat-tailed. A Brewer's Blackbird would be a very good record in Florida.

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They did have one or two in the state last winter though, so it isn't impossible. But everyone's got the IDs right for these two.

 

jocateme

Well-known member

• Jun 29, 2007

• #8

I'd agree with the above.

 

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BirdPhotography

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• Jun 29, 2007

• #9

Yes Common grackle and Boat-tailed grackle.