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What is the State Bird of Connecticut?

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Found in all fifty states except for Hawaii, the robin is also the state bird of not just Connecticut, but Michigan and Wisconsin as well. Robins are prolific breeders, capable of producing not one, not two, but three broods in one summer season. Few birds are as ubiquitous in the United States as the American Robin.

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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

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They often become slower breeders, and most importantly, they lose their ability to disperse, meaning they get stranded on the island they live on. Go to French Frigate Shoals, in the far north of Hawaii, and you’ll find a chunk of rock no larger than medium city train station. They usually lose their anti-predator behavious.

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Petrel Paradise

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It is also restricted as a breeder to the north of North Island. Hes previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia.