List of U.S. state birds
This is a list of U.S. state birds as designated by each state's legislature. The selection of state birds began in 1927, when the legislatures for Alabama, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming selected their state birds. The last state to choose its bird was Arizona in 1973. Alaska, California, South Dakota, and Pennsylvania permit hunting of their state birds, while Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Tennessee have designated an additional "state game bird" for hunting. The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. Several states have state dinosaurs in addition to state birds, similarly to states with both a state insect and butterfly, or state mammal and horse.
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Table
State | State bird | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
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Alabama | Northern flicker (Yellowhammer) (state bird) |
Colaptes auratus | 1927[1] | |
Wild turkey (state game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo | 1980[2] | ||
Alaska | Willow ptarmigan | Lagopus lagopus | 1955[3] | |
Arizona | Cactus wren | Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus |
1973[4] | |
Arkansas | Northern mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | 1929[5] | |
California | California quail | Callipepla californica | 1931[6] | |
Colorado | Lark bunting | Calamospiza melanocorys | 1931[7] | |
Connecticut | American robin | Turdus migratorius | 1943[8] | |
Delaware | Delaware Blue Hen | Gallus gallus | 1939[9] | |
Florida | Northern mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | 1927[10] | |
Georgia | Brown thrasher (state bird) | Toxostoma rufum | 1928[11] | |
Bobwhite quail (state game bird) | Colinus virginianus | 1970[12] | ||
Hawaii | Nēnē or Hawaiian goose |
Branta sandvicensis | 1957[13] | |
Idaho | Mountain bluebird | Sialia currucoides | 1931[14] | |
Illinois | Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1929[15] | |
Indiana | Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1933[16] | |
Iowa | Eastern goldfinch aka American goldfinch |
Spinus tristis | 1933[17] | |
Kansas | Western meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 120px | 1933[18] |
Kentucky | Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1942[19] | |
Louisiana | Brown pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | 1966[20] | |
Maine | Black-capped chickadee | Poecile atricapilla | 1927[21] | |
Maryland | Baltimore oriole | Icterus galbula | 1947[22] | |
Massachusetts | Black-capped chickadee (state bird) |
Poecile atricapilla | 1941[23] | |
Wild turkey (state game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo | 1991[24] | ||
Michigan | American robin | Turdus migratorius | 1931[25] | |
Minnesota | Common loon | Gavia immer | 1961[26] | |
Mississippi | Northern mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | 1944[27] | |
Wood duck (state waterfowl) |
Aix sponsa | 1974[28] | ||
Missouri | Eastern bluebird | Sialia sialis | 1927[29] | |
Montana | Western meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 120px | 1941[30] |
Nebraska | Western meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 120px | 1929[31] |
Nevada | Mountain bluebird | Sialia currucoides | 1967[32] | |
New Hampshire | Purple finch | Carpodacus purpureus | 1957[33] | |
New Jersey | Eastern goldfinch | Spinus tristis | 1935[34] | |
New Mexico | Roadrunner aka greater roadrunner |
Geococcyx californianus | 1949[35] | |
New York | Eastern bluebird | Sialia sialis | 1970[36] | |
North Carolina | Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1943[37] | |
North Dakota | Western meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 120px | 1970[38] |
Ohio | Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1933[39] | |
Oklahoma | Scissor-tailed flycatcher | Tyrannus forficatus | 1951[40] | |
Wild turkey[41] (state game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo | ? | ||
Oregon | Western meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 120px | 1927[42] |
Pennsylvania | Ruffed grouse | Bonasa umbellus | 1931[43] | |
Rhode Island | Rhode Island Red | Gallus gallus | 1954[44] | |
South Carolina | Northern mockingbird (former state bird) |
Mimus polyglottos | 1939 - 1948[45] |
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Carolina wren | Thryothorus ludovicianus | 1948[45] | ||
Wild turkey (state wild game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo | 1976[46] | ||
South Dakota | Ring-necked pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | 1943[47] | |
Tennessee | Northern mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | 1933[48] | |
Bobwhite quail (state wild game bird) |
Colinus virginianus | 1987[49] | ||
Texas | Northern mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | 1927[50] | |
Utah | California gull | Larus californicus | 1955[51] | |
Vermont | Hermit thrush | Catharus guttatus | 1941[52] | |
Virginia | Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1950[53] | |
Washington | Willow goldfinch A.K.A American goldfinch |
Spinus tristis | 1951[54] | |
West Virginia | Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1949[55] | |
Wisconsin | American robin | Turdus migratorius | 1949[56] | |
Wyoming | Western meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 120px | 1927[57] |
D.C. & U.S. Territories | State bird | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
District of Columbia | Wood thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | 1938[58] | |
Guam | Guam rail | Gallirallus owstoni | ? | |
Northern Mariana Islands | Mariana fruit-dove | Ptilinopus roseicapilla | ? | |
Puerto Rico | Puerto Rican spindalis | Spindalis portoricensis | ? | |
U.S. Virgin Islands | Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | 1970 |
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