It's a male Eastern Pondhawk. Chicago has an *insane* number of them this year. :)
And yes, the bird is a female Red Winged Blackbird. I seriously wonder what's going on on that Y-chromosome to make the males look so RADICALLY different than the females. :)
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Date: 2010-08-13 03:39 pm (UTC)And yes, the bird is a female Red Winged Blackbird. I seriously wonder what's going on on that Y-chromosome to make the males look so RADICALLY different than the females. :)