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The Vulturine Storks

10,000 Birds

I mention all of this because we in North America, especially the southern part of North America, have storks too. Wood Storks are an exceptionally old species, and its existence predates the last Ice Age, around 15,000 years ago, by tens of thousands of years more. This is a bird with some pedigree.

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Grey-headed Gull

10,000 Birds

The ABA is still considering its response to the gull and its provenance, but more to the point, Jochen has called its pedigree into question by asserting that it is a Ring-billed Gull x Black-headed Gull hybrid. With my tuppence, I would like to put forward that this is a Grey-headed Gull.