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I defer to your greater knowledge, kind sir. :) And thank you!
Really? Rats...pretty sure I have an entry for Redbud already. I don't think I realized what it looked like when it wasn't in bloom.
Thank you!!!
I have no idea -- I didn't get to look at it that closely, alas. I guess it could have gotten tangled up in something in the store?
It's definitely not a starling, those I can ID on sight even from a distance.
Our town is located between Lake Michigan and Wolf Lake, with plenty of wetlands areas scattered around the town (including on a golf course, less than a mile away), but I think it's not a sora because of the extreme size difference; they're twice as big as this poor bird was.
I'm not entirely sure this is correct. The plumage around the face is a light cream color around the eyes, and Wikipedia says they tend to be 7 1/2 to 12 inches long. This was only a smidgen over 6 inches from beak to the tip of its tail. Unless, perhaps plumage is different for juveniles?
I have two other pictures I took as the store people were bagging it up to dispose of; let me upload those.
If it's what you say it is, I don't know why they have that particular species; haven't been back in the year since I took these shots. But thanks for the ID!
Looks like one of the species of Ichneumon wasps.