Ian Bates Got on the Road across America Following the Routes of the Meadowlark Birds | FotoRoom

When 24 year-old American photographer Ian Bates started making a project about North Dakota, he decided to call it Meadowlark after the small grassland bird that was chosen as North Dakota’s state bird. Upon later discovering that the meadowlark was in fact the state bird of five other US states, Ian didn’t change the working title; instead, he expanded the project’s scope to include these other states.