Why is this random variable Binomial distributed?

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Regarding the following question:

Find the probability that in a group of 20 individuals, there are at least 3 individuals born in March, given that there is an individual born in March 20.

The solution marks X as the number of individuals born in march and calculates: $$ P(X\geq3 | X \geq 1) $$

Claiming that X is binomial distributed. But why? What is the intuition for that? I though that binomial distribution mostly relates to experiments (like flipping a coin until "heads" shows etc), but for some reason this case doesn't look like an experiment or anything similar.

Thanks!