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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The white and brownish-black bird in the photo was covered in so many cactus spines, Alyssa Barrett could barely make out its coloring, let alone its species.

But something about the crook in its beak made her pulse quicken.

The Houston Chronicle reports it looked like the beak of a magnificent frigatebird, primarily found soaring over tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Dare she think it? Frigatebirds, with their 7-to 8-foot wingspan, did not frequent the South Texas area.

But in the days following a hurricane as devastating as Harv...