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What is the State Bird of Maine?

10,000 Birds

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. This little songbird has a range that extends across the United States and Canada, and is a ubiquitous backyard feeder visitor. Tom Brown, Jr.,

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

10,000 Birds

But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences.

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