female Brown-headed Cowbird Port Credit Ontario April (1 Viewer)

[49bentley]

Can someone please confirm this to be a female Brown-headed Cowbird? Taken in Port Credit Ontario April
Thanks
Chris

 

[Indobirder]

House Sparrow

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Indobirder.

 

[Butty]

Check against your field guide's pictures of juvenile brown-headed cowbird for: bill structure (particularly forehead/bill-shape), head pattern, and underparts pattern - and note juv+female brown-headed cowbird's short dark malar stripe which house sparrow (as here) doesn't have.

 

[49bentley]

Thanks Butty.