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Submitted By:dewtell
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Here is a list of birds:

Cardinal
Western Meadowlark
Mockingbird
Bluebird/Mountain Bluebird
??????????????
Eastern Goldfinch
Baltimore Oriole

Is the missing bird:
Chickadee
Purple Finch
Rhode Island Red
Roadrunner
Robin


Answer:

Robin

The birds are state birds of the United States, arranged by decreasing order of the number of states having that bird as the state bird. Seven states have the Cardinal, six have the Western Meadowlark, five have the Mockingbird, four have either the Bluebird or Mountain Bluebird, three (Wisconsin, Michigan, and Connecticut) have the Robin, two have the Eastern Goldfinch, and one (Maryland, of course) has the Baltimore Oriole as their state birds.
All the other birds listed are the state birds of only one or two states.




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Comments on this teaser


Posted by ccccc10/14/02
how do u answer the question

Posted by dewtell10/15/02
I generally work them out with pencil and paper, and then check to see if I got it right (or what the answer was if I finally gave up). Or are you asking how you would figure out this particular question? For that, if you were stuck, I think looking up some of the birds in an encyclopedia might give you a clue to spot the pattern, which is why the hint suggests that might be helpful.

Posted by electronjohn01/29/03
Very good, and hard teaser. I would have thought only one bird per state would be allowed.

Posted by dewtell01/30/03
Thanks. Every state does have only one bird. However, multiple states can have the same bird, since it is up to each state which bird they choose. I came up with this teaser after noticing the cool progression in my son's sticker chart of "Birds of the US States." Hmmm (counting birds)... 7... 6... 5... 4 (sort of) ... 3... there must be some way of turning this into a teaser!




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