Identify this bird

I'm thinking it's a hybrid or a juvenile. Anybody know?

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Please help us out and tell us where the photos were taken.
Al

Possibly a juvenile European Starling.

CDMOOSE wrote in post #17041568
Please help us out and tell us where the photos were taken.
Al

Sorry, that would help, wouldn't it? NW Ohio. Thanks

CalBar80 wrote in post #17041609
Possibly a juvenile European Starling.

Possibly, yes. Although by the time they start to develop adult wing plumage, the chest has developed the dark speckled plumage first. I have never seen a juvie starling with just a wing bar of adult plumage before. Although, there does seem to be a couple of speckled chest feathers starting to come through in that last shot.

If it was in the UK, I would call it as a juvie starling, as we have nothing else that would fit. But I am not as well veresd in US species, so it may be a bird I am not familiar with.

Not a juv Euro Starling, they are a fairly uniform grey/brown colour, not the barred wings that this bird has. At least, none that I've ever seen. An example of a juv Starling:

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Wow, I'm stumped. It's head looks so solid and a strong bill, any idea if starlings and Grackles can "get it on" ?

I thought Starlings were a Dull grayish brown overall when young?

(shrug)

The markings on the secondaries and the few colored feathers on the breast look like an adult Starling. It might be a genetic mutation of some sort. The bill looks a bit heavy, but that could be a effect of the angle and the strange head coloring.

Three days ago at the Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge (California/Oregon border area) I photograph two of these birds in a small flock of about 12. Still working trying to identify them.

It's a juvenile European Starling currently in a transitional molt into it's adult plumage. Nice shots.

txcanon wrote in post #17043157
It's a juvenile European Starling currently in a transitional molt into it's adult plumage. Nice shots.

This.

They molt in a kind of uneven way and can look pretty weird. Like this one, that I shot a few years ago: he's almost done, except the head. This was close to nightfall and at the time of shooting I had no idea what I was looking at. It's a bad shot but I kept it for occasions such as these.

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Young European Starling was my thought as well. Here is a shot of a flock of them that I got help with last year...

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Thanks everyone, I'm leaning toward it being a young european starling also at this point. Al least until a better explanation comes along.

It does look like a juvenile European Starling but is much too light. SO some starling Juv that breads in your area.

Great shots BTW.