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P102 State Birds and Flowers
This beautiful poster was inspired by the postage
stamps issued by the United States Postal Service,
which quickly became the best-selling series in its
history.
You would expect the state bird of Maryland to be
the Baltimore Oriole, and you can understand New
Mexico being represented by the Roadrunner, but
why did dry, land-locked Utah choose the California
Gull? It was because in 1848, migrating gulls saved
the early settlers from starvation by eating up the
Rocky Mountain locusts that were destroying their
crops. The 50 states are listed alphabetically. Each
bird and flower is identified by both its common and
its scientific names.
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