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What is the National Bird of the United States?

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From France he wrote to his daughter expressing his displeasure: For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. .&# Benjamin Franklin was famously not happy about the decision to use the Bald Eagle as a symbol of the United States (he preferred the Wild Turkey ).

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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The species is also susceptible to the effects of commercial exploitation of marine benthic organisms and shellfish, and is threatened by drowning in fishing nets. But, lacking the law enforcement in the field, nothing has really changed. European Turtle-Dove by Denis Cachia. 40,000 birds.” (The Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus.

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