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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. This is a bird with some pedigree. This begs the question, how did the Wood Stork end up in the Americas with relatives so far away? Where White Storks are beautiful, ours are grotesque.

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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.