Heheeh, it’s been a minute - and I’m sure you’ve slept since then. Usually my excuse for a bad memory 
This is still being looked into. We do appreciate the heads up
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I can confirm I purchased them on my EU account
have they perhaps been mistakenly flagged as bind-to-Bnet like promo mounts/pets like the twitch drops, blizzcon rewards, WotlK Classic DK mount, or those old helm transmogs?
I got the Swift Windsteed mount too and also a pet, Cenarion Hackling. Blizzard can take the mount back cause i dont like it but the pet is cute so i want to keep that one. 
I randomly got one too, I know for certain I’ve never bought it before.
I got a Swift Windsteed as well upon login today and I did not own it previously it was one I remember I didnt get before they removed it from the in-game shop.
I already had/have one, so umm… could I have a free ‘insert-mount-I-don’t-have-here’ instead? 
I did not purchase this mount in the past when it was available. But some how got it yesterday for free. Was quite confused and still am.
Was it part of a promotion or bundle at any time?
I have it but I don’t believe it’s something I would have bought just for itself.
It was part of the See You Later Bundle that Blizz put out in 2018 when they retired some things from the Shop.
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That’s where I got it from then. I recall picking up that bundle.
Me too I just got a free windsteed, I do not remember ever buying that bundle posted above, but I have the 3 helmets from the 2012 store, or whenever it was lol. I was really scared I’d had too much to drink last night and purchased a mount without thinking!
The World of Warcraft Twitter account just tweeted about it:
The drop starts on the 9th, so that’s probably the backend they’ve been working on. If you already had it, it may have popped again, causing the confusion.
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So you’re telling me I had a mount that they removed from the store but also somehow removed from my mount list since 2014… BLIZZARD! Not sure why I had a gift for a mount I already had so I’m guessing was a very old bug for it perhaps not showing.
Or I had it the entire time but was still able to open it up even if I already had it? That sounds weird tho like it wouldn’t work as the system would check to see if I already had it in my mount list before popping up as a gift. Oh no I’ve gone crosseyed.
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This is probably what happened. You had it, but the backend work they are doing to prepare for this new Twitch Drop may have erroneously made the gift reappear.
Computers be crazy sometimes!
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I think what’s happened is that when something is made a Twitch Drop, it’s marked as promotional because Twitch doesn’t know which account to credit the Drop to, it only knows your battlenet account, and therefore the drop becomes bound to your overall battlenet account so that there’s no risk of you getting the item on the wrong account.
But since people who bought them originally already have them, that then flags them to appear on all other accounts you own because suddenly you own a promotional item on one account (and therefore all accounts) and for whatever reason also makes them reappear on accounts that already owned them since theyre now technically a different mount/pet.
am I close to the mark there @Orlyia?
Ummm, sortof.
We have gotten word on these - Merry early Christmas folks!
Nothing to be concerned over - enjoy!
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I think it becoming a drop may be why you received it on your US license alongside the EU one. The Feldrake was given to my EU trial account alongside my main US one.
According to wowhead, it, and the Cenarion Hatchling, were supposed to be the new twitch drops starting December 9th.
I can say for certain I never had one before Orlyia.
In fact, I know for a fact because I never placed it in my special mounts action bars. But I woke up today with the mount as a present in my collections.
Thanks for the early birthday gift! 
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I 100% didn’t have it before.
Edit: OH. I just saw the news. Well, uh… awesomse!