Thanks as always for the excellent post Tom. One thing that I have not seen mentioned on this forum is that the Flushing Meadows Yellow-headed Blackbird has clearly spent time in captivity. The clean cuts to the flight feathers and the cage wear on the tail are classic indicators of a caged bird. I’ve heard some mention on other forums of fault bars, this is not what we are seeing. Gabriel Willow has some flight shots on his ebird list that show this well https://ebird.org/checklist/S73707073
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