Help identifying a bird (1 Viewer)

[wesbradley]

Louisville, KY

Bird: brownish grey color, only clearly distinguishing feature is a black spot on its throat. Unusual call, more hawkish in nature.

I’d describe it as a round chest and belly.

 

[Steve Lister]

Not much to go on here Wes. What size was it? Any idea what family/group?

 

[Butty]

Welcome to BF.
Kentucky, USA, presumably. The date should be given as well.
No chance for an ID from that I'm afraid unless you can get (even a very bad) photo. Your best chance is to get hold of a field guide and leaf through it.

 

[wesbradley]

Louisville, KY

Bird: brownish grey color, only clearly distinguishing feature is a black spot on its throat. Unusual call, more hawkish in nature.

I’d describe it as a round chest and belly.

Further notes:

Brownish grey color. Large black spot on its throat. Rounder in the chest. Somewhat large- dove or robin like in size. The thing that caught my attention was its unusual hawk like call - more shrill and crisp rather than “sing songie”

 

[wesbradley]

Not much to go on here Wes. What size was it? Any idea what family/group?

Yeah, no picture opportunity as it was too far away. I’ll stick around to see if he returns.

 

[wesbradley]

Welcome to BF.
Kentucky, USA, presumably. The date should be given as well.
No chance for an ID from that I'm afraid unless you can get (even a very bad) photo. Your best chance is to get hold of a field guide and leaf through it.

Louisville KY. 2/25/2024

 

[wesbradley]

Yeah, no picture opportunity as it was too far away. I’ll stick around to see if he returns.

Rounder in the chest. Somewhat large- dove or robin like in size.

 

[wesbradley]

A northern flicker is as close as I can find with a Google search but I didn’t observe those chest spots.

 

[Butty]

I can't think that a Google search would show you anything useful apart from random bird photos. If you can't find a proper printed field guide for N America, try wandering through this...

Browse by Family, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Browse North American birds in taxonomic order—by order and family, with quick access to each bird’s photos and sounds.

www.allaboutbirds.org

 

[Kits]

Welcome to Birdforum. Hopefully you'll be able to work it out.

 

[abirdingguy]

A northern flicker is as close as I can find with a Google search but I didn’t observe those chest spots.

A Northern Flicker could fit that visual and audio description. Perhaps you didn't notice or remember the spots given the other features of the birds or the distance that you observed it from.