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P101 - State Birds & Flowers
This beautiful poster was inspired by the stamps issued by the
United States Postal Service in 1982, which quickly became the
best-selling ones in American history.
You would expect the state bird of Maryland to be the
Baltimore oriole and you can understand New Mexico being represented
by the road-runner, but why did dry, land-locked Utah choose the
California seagull? It was because in 1848, the gulls saved the
early settlers from starvation by eating up the Rocky Mountain
locusts that were destroying their crops. The fifty states are
listed alphabetically. Each bird and flower is identified by both
its common and its scientific name. |
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