It doesn't have the brown head, though, like this one (the bronzed cowbirds seem to have even more brown as shown here). If it is a female cowbird, then the females are larger than the males with entirely different wingspans.
When I see those grey birds around, I almost think they look like some sort of dove, but none of the doves or pigeons I've looked up matched. When they fly away, the middle of each wing has a white pattern on it. They could be any number of other things and I wouldn't know.
Also, do you know of any red/crimson birds without crowns which are not cardinals? I saw another one (or the same one) today which I'd referred to as a juvenile cardinal in this post, and I'm not sure what else it could be.
I've seen house finches, so I know it wasn't one of those. Maybe a summer tanager, but I'm pretty sure the beak was yellow. The crown was almost bald, so I suppose it could have been an injured or molting (or juvenile?) cardinal.
That's definitely it. When I scrolled further down in Wikipedia, I saw another pic like that which was right on, but the first two on that page made it look like a smaller, stouter bird.
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When I see those grey birds around, I almost think they look like some sort of dove, but none of the doves or pigeons I've looked up matched. When they fly away, the middle of each wing has a white pattern on it. They could be any number of other things and I wouldn't know.
Also, do you know of any red/crimson birds without crowns which are not cardinals? I saw another one (or the same one) today which I'd referred to as a juvenile cardinal in this post, and I'm not sure what else it could be.
House finch
Scarlet tanager
Summer tanager
Edited at 2008-04-20 05:04 pm (UTC)
Edited at 2008-04-20 04:46 pm (UTC)