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What is the State Bird of Maine?

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As I am a native of Maine, it is only fitting that my first state bird post is on the Black-capped Chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus ). As it is a common sight throughout New England, it is no surprise that this chickadee species is also the state bird of Massachusetts. Hall wrote to the legislature with his suggestion.

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

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More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights. He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”.

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