Need help with ID - several birds

[Turtlebird]

Hello, could I please get some help with these birds?



A Baltimore Oriole?  Not sure...never seen one with head markings like things.  Point Pelee



Coopers Or Sharp-Shinned?  Point Pelee


Is this a Great-Tailed Grackle?  Southern Illinois - Shawnee National Forest


Some kind of Flycatcher?  Southern Illinois - Cache River Wildlife Area


Greater or Lesser Yellowlegs?  Woodstock, ON - in drainage pond, standing still





Thanks!!

[thouc]

That was a challenging collection you got there!

1) Looks odd, but can't get it to anything else than a Baltimore Oriole.

2) Not sure, but the tail looks notched -> Sharp-shinned

3) Have never seen a Great-tailed Grackle, but the bill looks big and crown looks flat, so it seems correct.

4) Looks like an Eastern Phoebe (lack of eye-ring, brown, one-colored bill)

5) Bill looks straight and short (as a Lesser), but this could be due to the angle in picture. However it looks pretty heavily streaked on chest and barred on side which would indicate a Greater Yellowlegs.

/Thomas

[Brian Bailey]

I think a Great-tailed Grackle would be unlikely anywhere in Illinois.  A Common Grackle would be much more likely.

BB