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 |
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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 |