This is a list of U.S. state birds.
State | State bird | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama | Yellowhammer aka Northern Flicker (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 | Mockingbird aka 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 | Blue Hen Chicken | Gallus gallus | 1939[9] | |
District of Columbia | Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | 1938[10] | |
Florida | Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | 1927[11] | |
Georgia | Brown Thrasher (state bird) | Toxostoma rufum | 1928[12] | |
Bobwhite Quail (state game bird) | Colinus virginianus | 1970[13] | ||
Hawaii | Nēnē or Hawaiian Goose |
Branta sandvicensis | 1957[14] | |
Idaho | Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | 1931[15] | |
Illinois | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1928[16] | |
Indiana | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1933[17] | |
Iowa | Eastern Goldfinch aka American Goldfinch |
Carduelis tristis | 1933[18] | |
Kansas | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 1933[19] | |
Kentucky | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1942[20] | |
Louisiana | Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | 1966[21] | |
Maine | Black-capped Chickadee | Poecile atricapilla | 1927[22] | |
Maryland | Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | 1947[23] | |
Massachusetts | Black-capped Chickadee | Poecile atricapilla | 1941[24] | |
Wild Turkey (state game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo | 1991[25] | ||
Michigan | American Robin | Turdus migratorius | 1931[26] | |
Minnesota | Common Loon | Gavia immer | 1961[27] | |
Mississippi | Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | 1944[28] | |
Wood duck (state waterfowl) |
Aix sponsa | 1974[29] | ||
Missouri | Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis | 1927[30] | |
Montana | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 1941[31] | |
Nebraska | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 1929[32] | |
Nevada | Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | 1967[33] | |
New Hampshire | Purple Finch | Carpodacus purpureus | 1957[34] | |
New Jersey | Eastern Goldfinch | Carduelis tristis | 1935[35] | |
New Mexico | Roadrunner aka Greater Roadrunner |
Geococcyx californianus | 1949[36] | |
New York | Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis | 1970[37] | |
North Carolina | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1943[38] | |
North Dakota | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 1970[39] | |
Ohio | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1933[40] | |
Oklahoma | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus forficatus | 1951[41] | |
Oregon | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 1927[42] | |
Pennsylvania | Ruffed Grouse | Bonasa umbellus | 1931[43] | |
Rhode Island | Rhode Island Red chicken | Gallus gallus | 1954[44] | |
South Carolina | Northern Mockingbird (former state bird) |
Mimus polyglottos | 1939 - 1948[45] | |
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 aka American Goldfinch |
Carduelis tristis | 1951[54] | |
West Virginia | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | 1949[55] | |
Wisconsin | American Robin | Turdus migratorius | 1949[56] | |
Wyoming | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | 1927[57] | |
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 |