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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KnockerNorton" data-source="post: 1137741" data-attributes="member: 66452">It's an adult female, judging by the eye ring and bill. I wouldn't put too much focus on leg structure, considering the quality of the picture and the posture of the bird. The best you can say is that they're pinkish, and stuck on a thrush sp. If you look at where the pale areas are, it is where you'd expect some rufous or paler brown on a female blackbird. It just looks like the pale brown/rufous tones are replaced by whitish. ALL other patterning is fine for blackbird - the mottled gorget (no sign of Song Thrush spot patterning at all, to me), the face pattern, the undertail coverts. For those quibbling about it having Song Thrush legs, how do you explain the yellowish orbital ring and bill? Or the dark olive/brown back and wings (perfectly normal for female blackbird)? A hybrid shows intermediate features across the board, it isn't a 50/50 split between the upperparts and underparts!It's a Blackbird.</blockquote>