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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

That there is an American Kestrel. According to Wikipedia...

... it is not actually a kestrel in the phylogenetic sense. Instead, a process of convergent evolution to fit a similar small prey niche in the ecosystem as the true kestrels have left it with similar physical characteristics and hunting methods.

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