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Common name: the northern flicker

Scientific name: Chionanthus speratus

I only really know them by their common names.

silly frank, that’s a tree

It’s a bird and I don’t think it’s “silly” to call it “it” or “the tree” because that’s what it is

frank, you know i love and support you in whatever you do, but i can’t lie and tell you that chionanthus is a bird when google says right here that it’s a tree

You’re right, chionanthus is a common name for a genus of plants and not a common name for a genus of birds.

This is because I am a terrible amateur botanist and don’t really know anything.