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Photographed by my dad during his business trip. I wish I could've been there, there where so many insects and reptiles! Not to mention what kind of plants grow there too, many of the organisms in Pensacola seem exotic to me in comparison.

Clean creamy head and neck, with clear demarcation to warm brown of body. Speculum showed just the thinnest white strip at the trailing edge (see second photo), but no other white shows on the bird. Bold yellow bill with black gape spot and nail.

Merlin's call ID app kept giving me Acadian flycatcher, iNat is saying it's an eastern wood-peewee. I honestly can't tell one way or the other, but I must have seen about 10 of them on old 905 that day and have probably seen 20 of them since.

Possibly a female Bobolink which would be more common (but still “rare”) here/now, but I think the clean head lacking dark supercilium or eye stripe, along with the markings on its back, are enough for ID. The bird also had a yellow wash on the breast, but it turned around before I had my camera ready.

I wonder if this pink ibis I saw in the park was a scarlet ibis/white ibis hybrid or it obtained the pink color by artificial and/or other means. The Palm Beach Zoo is down the street, and I believe they have scarlet ibises, so wild ibises flying in and breeding with them may not be impossible. (unless they have sterilized their exotic ibises to prevent that)