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7:37 pm, Apr 19, 2025
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Op-Ed: Our National Bird and St. Croix’s Onetime Sugar Economy

Culturally, the Yellow Breast have been identified with the making of sugar in the Virgin Islands. (Photo by Olasee Davis)The Yellow Breast (Coereba flaveola) is called by many common names such as Bananaquit, Sugar Bird, etc., in the Virgin Islands. But why did we choose the Yellow Breast as our territory bird?

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