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The brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia. [85] [86] The brown thrasher also was the inspiration for the name of Atlanta's former National Hockey League team, the Atlanta Thrashers, [87] who relocated in 2011 to become the current Winnipeg Jets (the original Jets relocated to Phoenix in 1996 to become the now-inactive Coyotes). [88]
Operation Big Buzz was a U.S. military entomological warfare field test conducted in 1955 on Savannah, Georgia's predominantly Black Carver Village neighborhood. [1] The tests involved dispersing over 300,000 mosquitoes from aircraft and through ground dispersal methods.
The brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia. This list of birds of Georgia includes species documented in the U.S. state of Georgia and accepted by the Checklist and Records Committee of the Georgia Ornithological Society (GOSRC). As of August 2020, there are 427 species definitively included in the official list.
Pennsylvania never chose an official state bird, but did choose the ruffed grouse as the state game bird. [3] Alaska , California , and South Dakota permit hunting of their state birds. Alabama , Georgia , Massachusetts , Missouri , Oklahoma , South Carolina , and Tennessee have designated an additional "state game bird" for the purpose of hunting.
Georgia produces the most chicken of any state in the U.S., with 1.3 billion chickens produced in 2022, according to World Population Review, based on USDA statistics.As of 2022, the industry ...
State State insect Binomial name Image Year Alabama: Monarch butterfly (state insect) Danaus plexippus: 1989 [1] Queen Honey bee (state agricultural insect) Apis mellifera: 2005 [2] Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly and mascot) Papilio glaucus: 1989 [3] Alaska: Four-spotted skimmer dragonfly: Libellula quadrimaculata: 1995 [4] Arizona ...
Earlier this year, a Louisiana resident died after being hospitalized with bird flu, marking the first U.S. death from the H5N1 virus. Since 2003, the World Health Organization has counted more ...
About 347 bird species make their home in Georgia. [7] Many of these birds are migratory. These species are divided into four categories: permanent residents birds, summer-breeding birds, winter residents and spring/fall migrants. [7] Species of birds in Georgia are the brown thrasher, Georgia's state bird and the northern bobwhite, the state ...