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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

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I also asked ChatGPT for some birding jokes, and they are at the end. # # # Query: Provide a list of the 20 best birding locations in the United States. I am a westerner, so perhaps it is a glorious hotspot, but I’ve never heard Cape Ann, Massachusetts referred to as a world-class birding location.

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What is the State Bird of Rhode Island?

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Originating in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, these birds are known to be good choices for people with small flocks. They are described as “hardy,” and “handle marginal diets and poor housing conditions better than other breeds and still continue to produce eggs.” To be sure, it’s a nice chicken.

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Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

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Any day of birding in New York State that includes a sighting of a Vesper Sparrow is a better-then-average day. As farming has declined across the northeastern United States the open country that Vesper Sparrows need has been transformed to subdivisions and forest. What has caused the decline? What has caused the decline?

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Birding Magee Marsh

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But I have now visited Magee Marsh in autumn, or, technically, the very tail end of summer, but whatever the season might actually have been the birds were not in their breeding finery and they were heading south. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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And, because his name was so firmly a part of birding culture, I also didn’t realize how recently he had lived and birded the United States, nor how relatively new was the concept of a field guide. The story is that an HM editor was also president of Massachusetts Audubon. What Is In This Field Guide?

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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Nick Lund pretty much says it all when he writes, “Maine left Massachusetts in 1820 to become its own state and took the best of New England with it” (p. we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Maine.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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Meanwhile, in Holyoke Massachusetts, the council had a ban on cat feeding in mind but others … the community … objected. …It is estimated that the number of free-roaming cats in the United States may be equal to that of owned cats, approximately 70 million. ” Home rule rules again, perhaps poorly.