Friday, June 26, 2009

Trip To Rhode Island






Soon we'll be traveling to the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. A fancy name for a fancy state. I hear they're thinking of shortening the name to just plain Rhode Island. I thought I would do some bird watching there. I've been researching which birds I might see. Rhode Island is the ocean state. So guess what bird is the state bird of Rhode Island? A gull? No. A tern? No. Any kind of shore bird? No. The state bird of Rhode Island isn't a wild bird at all but a chicken named the Rhode Island Red.

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