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What is the State Bird of Florida?

10,000 Birds

Florida is one of America’s great avian hot spots, renowned for its impressive bird diversity. Perhaps it was their relative rarity, compared to now, combined with their varied songs that prompted the Florida legislature to vote in this widespread species. Think as a human you are immune?

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

10,000 Birds

The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air. Eighty hours of flying.

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