Utnapishtim (Ut-napishtim) is the Akkadian / Babylonian flood survivor in Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI.
Birds belong to Gilgamesh, Berossus, and Genesis.
In Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI, Gilgamesh meets Utnapishtim the Faraway, who already has the immortality Gilgamesh seeks.
Livius / Kovacs Gilgamesh XI lines for the storm and birds:
Foster’s Before the Muses is a proper translator for that Akkadian stream (Atrahasis / Gilgamesh neighborhood).
Bird test (Gilgamesh, Berossus, Genesis; not in surviving Eridu Genesis)
Indigenous American flood trails sit here as labeled comparative neighbors, not as proof that every tribe tells Gilgamesh.
It is not dig proof that Gilgamesh Tablet XI or Genesis is a newspaper report of one Gulf inundation.
They are three flood survivors in one comparative tradition: Sumerian Ziusudra (Eridu Genesis), Akkadian Utnapishtim (Gilgamesh XI / Atrahasis neighborhood), and biblical Noah (Genesis 6-9).
The Akkadian flood hero of Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet XI.
Bird tests are clear in Gilgamesh and Berossus; they are not preserved in the surviving Eridu Genesis tablet.
Gilgamesh uses dove, swallow, and raven.