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The northern cardinal is the state bird of Ohio. This list of birds of Ohio includes species documented in the U.S. state of Ohio and accepted by Ohio Bird Records Committee (OBRC). As of November 2024, there were 451 species on the official list. [1]
Ohio's state bird, the cardinal (C. cardinalis), was designated the state bird by the General Assembly in 1933. [19] It was then listed as effective in the Ohio Revised Code in 1953. [13] State animal: State animal – white-tailed deer: The white-tailed deer (O. virginianus) became the official state animal in 1988. [13] State reptile
Reptiles, on the other hand, are shown only in list format in a chapter titled "Miscellaneous", where the other non-bird animals (and many non-animals) are listed. Shearer and Shearer consider the state reptiles to be part of a "last thirty years" phenomenon (written in 2003) that includes such particular items as a state's "official beverage ...
Unlike other species, turacos owe their color to a copper-based pigment called turacoverdin. The common grackle and many shimmering hummingbirds display iridescence like the way a prism splits ...
The waxwings are a group of birds with soft silky plumage and unique red tips to some of the wing feathers. In the Bohemian and cedar waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax and give the group its name. These are arboreal birds of northern forests. They live on insects in summer and berries in winter. Bohemian waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus (O)
The birds are about 20 to 22 inches long, according to Audubon, about the size of a mallard duck. Adults have long necks and legs, a color pattern of chestnut, black and gray, and have pink bills.
It is the state amphibian of Ohio and South Carolina. The species ranges from Nova Scotia, to Lake Superior , to southern Georgia and Texas. [ 3 ] Its embryos have been found to have symbiotic algae living in and around them, [ 4 ] the only known example of vertebrate cells hosting an endosymbiont microbe (unless mitochondria are considered).
Of all the birds that fly north to Ohio each spring, scarlet tanagers could be considered the most recognizable. "They have this rich, almost eye-popping scarlet body with black wings," Emmert ...