NYS birders,a look at the photo tells that this bird is a no doubt whatsoever juvenile gray morph Gyrfalcon. I am confused as to the confusion.Besides definitive plumage and shape,it's carrying away a herring gull.When someone sees a Peregrine do that,it will something of note..
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