WordPlay: State Birds in the Spelling Bee

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The Spelling Bee lexicon includes the names of many different kinds of birds, as listed in LexiTopics: Animals HERE.
Every American state has designed a State Bird, usually one that is common in the state or represents something special about the state.
Just for fun, we reviewed the list of state birds to see how many might be matched up to the bird names in the Spelling Bee lexicon. By bending a few definitions, we came up with 23, as shown below.
The Bee words are shown in ALL CAPS, followed by the relevant state(s) and their state bird(s).
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STATE BIRDS in the Spelling Bee lexicon
BUNTINGColorado: Lark Bunting
CHICKADEEMaine: Black-capped ChickadeeMassachusetts: Black-capped Chickadee
CHICKENDelaware: Blue Hen ChickenRhode Island: Rhode Island Red Hen
CUCKOONew Mexico: Roadrunner (also called Ground Cuckoo)
FINCHIowa: American GoldfinchNew Hampshire: Purple FinchNew Jersey: American GoldfinchWashington: American Goldfinch
GULLUtah: California Gull
LARK *Kansas: Western MeadowlarkMontana: Western MeadowlarkNebraska: Western MeadowlarkNorth Dakota: Western MeadowlarkOregon: Western MeadowlarkWyoming: Western Meadowlark* Meadowlarks are not true larks, but in the family of New World blackbirds.
LOONMinnesota: Common Loon
NENEHawaii: Nene (Hawaiian Goose)
PELICANLouisiana: Brown Pelican
ROBINConnecticut: American RobinMichigan: American RobinWisconsin: American Robin
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