Identify please (1 Viewer)

[bethanyzaal]

Can someone please identify this bird?

 

[Mono]

Where abouts in the world was the bird?

 

[bethanyzaal]

Northwest Florida.

 

[nartreb]

Very young birds can be tricky, but I'm fairly sure you've got a Northern Mockingbird. Note how the wing has two near-white stripes going across, and below the lower stripe, on the anterior edge of the wing, there's a blocky bright-white patch three feathers wide. When you can see that white patch (it's not always visible when the wing is tightly closed), that's a good field mark to identify a mockingbird (vs. other North American birds of similar overall color, shape, size).

The spots on the chest will disappear when the bird is older, the eye color will change, the face will be paler with a more obvious dark line ahead of the eye, and the big yellow "lips" will shrink while the beak becomes darker.