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Whit eld
Rabun
Dade
Murray
Fannin
Towns
Catoosa
Union
Gilmer
Habersham
Lumpkin
Walker
White
Oostanaula River
Gordon
Stephens
Chattooga
Dawson
Hart
Franklin
Cherokee
Floyd
Etowa h River
Bartow
Forsyth
Jackson
Madison
Broad River
Elbert
Fulton
Oconee River
Polk
Cobb
Paulding
Haralson
Walton
Oconee
Douglas
Rockdale
Dekalb
Chattahoochee River
Carroll
Clayton
Morgan
Greene
Taliaferro
Newton
Columbia
Warren
McDu e
Henry
Putnam
Richmond
Fayette
Butts
Jasper
Heard
Coweta
Hancock
Spalding
Glascock
Brier Creek
Ocmulgee River
Lamar
Pike
Burke
Troup
Je erson
Washington
Jones
Monroe
Meriwether
Flint River
Upson
Harris
Bibb
Screven
Jenkins
Wilkinson
Oconee River
Talbot
Crawford
Twiggs
Peach
Taylor
Muscogee
Laurens
Bleckley
Candler
Houston
Treutlen
Bulloch
Chatta-
Marion
hoochee Pickens Atlanta Macon Gwinnett Hall Barrow Banks Clarke Baldwin Oglethorpe Wilkes Johnson Lincoln Emanuel Ogeechee River Savannah River E ngham
Schley Ohoopee River Ogeechee River
Pulaski Montgomery
Dooly Dodge Wheeler Evans Fort Pulaski
Fort Pulaski
National
National
Stewart Bryan Monument
Monument
Savannah-
Sumter Wilcox Toombs Tattnall Canoochee River Savannah- Chatham Tybee Island
6 7 Skidaway Island North Beach
Ogeechee Canal
Ogeechee Canal
Tybee Island
North Beach
Skidaway Island
Webster
State Park
State Park
Fort McAllister
Fort McAllister
Quitman Crisp PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – TORINDKFLT Telfair Liberty State Historic Park
State Historic Park
Lee PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – MICHEL RATHWELL Fort Morris
Fort Morris
Turner Al apaha River Ben Hill Je Long State Historic Site
State Historic Site
Randolph Terrell Davis Appling Altamaha River Nature Preserve
Melon Blu
Melon Blu
Nature Preserve
TOP 10 GEORGIA BIRDS One of our most popular birds, the Berrien Brantley State Historic Site
Harris Neck Nationaleck National
Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife Refuge
Clay Calhoun Dougherty Worth Irwin Co ee Bacon Wayne McIntosh Harris N
Early Baker Tift Pierce Glynn M.A.R.S.H. Project
Ansley Hodges
Ansley Hodges
M.A.R.S.H. Project
Flint River Northern Cardinal Chipping Sparrow Satilla River H Hofwyl-Broad eldofwyl-Broad eld
Atkinson
(Spizella passerine)
(Cardinalis cardinalis)
State Historic Site
Originally a bird of open pine woods
Miller Withlacoochee River Ware
Chattahoochee Rive r
Cook
Gould’s Inlet & East Beach’s Inlet & East Beach
Gould
Mitchell cardinal, also called a redbird, is the and edges, the chipping sparrow has Camden Causeway North End
Colquitt
North End
official state bird of no fewer than
adapted well to altered landscapes,
Ochloc k onee River
Causeway
Lanier
now nesting in gardens and parks
seven eastern states (but not Georgia;
South End
Thomas
Clinch
C
behavior makes it well-known
Most people recognize this songbird
Seminole
State Park
State Park
Decatur Grady our state bird is the Brown Thrasher). over much of the continent. Its tame Charlton S a tilla River Crooked Riverrooked River South End GEORGIA
from the bright red color of the male’s
and popular with its gray
F
Folkstonolkston
crest and head. Female coloring is body and brown or St. Marys River Cumberland Island
Cumberland Island
Brooks
National Seashore
National Seashore
more reddish olive. Lowndes red cap. Echols Ok
Okefenokee Nationalefenokee National
Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife Refuge
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