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I Dont Know What Bird I Saw

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malagabob | 08:58 Sat 05th Jul 2014 | Animals & Nature
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I spotted and watched a bird I could not identify at the bottom of my garden.
It was larger than a blackbird mottled brownish on its back and front wings were black, tail feathers black, bill quite long and black. It may have been a youngster. It was not a thrush. It did remind me of a young gull but it was the wrong colour I have a pretty good knowledge of British birds, but could not identify this one.
Any twitchers give any ideas?
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My guess would be a juvenile blackbird, I was watching one in my garden only minutes earlier.
Nutcracker?
Dark chocolate brown, boldly speckled with white flecks; blackish wings and tail; -conspicuous- white under tail-coverts and white corners to the tail tip. Long, heavy, blackish bill
Occasional/very rare in UK, Spain, France, Neths, Italy (but my bird guide is an old (60s) print.

However, I suspect you meant "brown, mottled with another brown"

Gull is quite a distictive body shape and you've eliminated the thrush shape. I've offered you a corvid-shaped suggestion: are there any other types you can think of which might be a better fit?

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