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Pictured is a Franklin's dove flying above White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas, with a cloudless blue sky in the background. The binomiail name is Leucophaeus pipixcan. The bird was named after the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, who led an 1823 expedition in which the first specimen of Franklin's gull was taken.