List of U.S. state birds facts for kids
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 |
| Wild Turkey (state game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo |  |
1980 | |
| Alaska | Willow Ptarmigan | Lagopus lagopus |  |
1955 |
| Arizona | Cactus Wren | Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus |
 |
1973 |
| Arkansas | Mockingbird aka Northern Mockingbird |
Mimus polyglottos |  |
1929 |
| California | California Quail | Callipepla californica |  |
1931 |
| Colorado | Lark Bunting | Calamospiza melanocorys |  |
1931 |
| Connecticut | American Robin | Turdus migratorius |  |
1943 |
| Delaware | Blue Hen Chicken | Gallus gallus | 1939 | |
| District of Columbia | Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | .jpg) |
1938 |
| Florida | Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos |  |
1927 |
| Georgia | Brown Thrasher (state bird) | Toxostoma rufum |  |
1928 |
| Bobwhite Quail (state game bird) | Colinus virginianus |  |
1970 | |
| Hawaii | Nēnē or Hawaiian Goose |
Branta sandvicensis |  |
1957 |
| Idaho | Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides |  |
1931 |
| Illinois | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis |  |
1928 |
| Indiana | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
1933 |
| Iowa | Eastern Goldfinch aka American Goldfinch |
Carduelis tristis |  |
1933 |
| Kansas | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta |  |
1933 |
| Kentucky | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
1942 |
| Louisiana | Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis |  |
1966 |
| Maine | Black-capped Chickadee | Poecile atricapilla |  |
1927 |
| Maryland | Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula |  |
1947 |
| Massachusetts | Black-capped Chickadee | Poecile atricapilla | |
1941 |
| Wild Turkey (state game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo | |
1991 | |
| Michigan | American Robin | Turdus migratorius |  |
1931 |
| Minnesota | Common Loon | Gavia immer |  |
1961 |
| Mississippi | Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | |
1944 |
| Wood duck (state waterfowl) |
Aix sponsa |  |
1974 | |
| Missouri | Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis |  |
1927 |
| Montana | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | |
1941 |
| Nebraska | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | |
1929 |
| Nevada | Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | |
1967 |
| New Hampshire | Purple Finch | Carpodacus purpureus |  |
1957 |
| New Jersey | Eastern Goldfinch | Carduelis tristis |  |
1935 |
| New Mexico | Roadrunner aka Greater Roadrunner |
Geococcyx californianus |  |
1949 |
| New York | Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis | |
1970 |
| North Carolina | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
1943 |
| North Dakota | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | |
1970 |
| Ohio | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
1933 |
| Oklahoma | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus forficatus |  |
1951 |
| Oregon | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | |
1927 |
| Pennsylvania | Ruffed Grouse | Bonasa umbellus |  |
1931 |
| Rhode Island | Rhode Island Red Chicken | Gallus gallus |  |
1954 |
| South Carolina | Northern Mockingbird (former state bird) |
Mimus polyglottos | |
1939 - 1948 |
| Carolina Wren | Thryothorus ludovicianus |  |
1948 | |
| Wild Turkey (state wild game bird) |
Meleagris gallopavo | |
1976 | |
| South Dakota | Ring-necked Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | .jpg) |
1943 |
| Tennessee | Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | |
1933 |
| Bobwhite Quail (state wild game bird) |
Colinus virginianus | |
1987 | |
| Texas | Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | |
1927 |
| Utah | California Gull | Larus californicus |  |
1955 |
| Vermont | Hermit Thrush | Catharus guttatus |  |
1941 |
| Virginia | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
1950 |
| Washington | Willow Goldfinch aka American Goldfinch |
Carduelis tristis |  |
1951 |
| West Virginia | Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | |
1949 |
| Wisconsin | American Robin | Turdus migratorius |  |
1949 |
| Wyoming | Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | |
1927 |
| 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 |
The state bird of Massachusetts is the Black Capped Chickadee
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