State Bird: Longspur versus Meadowlark
Recently Matt Smith and Marc Devokaitis posted online "A Modest Proposal: Can EBird Help Choose Better State Birds?" They propose replacing the Western Meadowlark with the Thick-billed Longspur as the State Bird of Montana.
They propose the Thick-billed Longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii) because sixty percent of the global population of Thick-billed Longspurs breed in Montana...
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