Kirtland's warbler could become Michigan's new state bird, giving robin the boot [View all]

(Detroit Free Press) A legislator from the U.P. introduced a bill Wednesday to make the Kirtland's warbler our state bird.

I vote yes.

Technically, of course, I don't get to vote. But HB 6382 has my full-throated support, which, if I were a Kirtland's warbler, would sound like this:

Chip-chip-chip-che-wee-wee!

The call captivated state Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, when he was a medic with the 107th Engineer Battalion of the Michigan Army National Guard, training at Camp Grayling amid the Kirtland's warbler's precise habitat. Years later, with co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle, he hopes to make the much-admired warbler our official avian ambassador. ..........(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/2022/09/21/kirtlands-warbler-michigan-state-bird-robin/69507701007/