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The American robin is the state bird of Wisconsin. This list of birds of Wisconsin includes species documented in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and accepted by the Records Committee of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology (WSORC). As of July 2022 there were 441 species and a species pair included in the official list. Of them, 96 are classed as accidental, 34 are classed as casual, 53 are ...
They are distributed among 36 genera, six of which have only one species. One species, the Bermuda flicker, is extinct . [ 1 ] The family's taxonomy is unsettled; the Clements taxonomy lists 235 species [ 2 ] and BirdLife International 's Handbook of the Birds of the World lists 254 [ 3 ] .
Below is a list of U.S. state birds as designated by each state's, district's or territory's government.. The selection of state birds began with Kentucky adopting the northern cardinal in 1926.
The pileated woodpecker (/ ˈ p aɪ l i eɪ t ə d, ˈ p ɪ l-/ PY-lee-ay-tid, PIL-ee-; Dryocopus pileatus) is a large, mostly black woodpecker native to North America. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific Coast.
The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate.
Though it has a vivid orange-red crown and nape it is not to be confused with the red-headed woodpecker, a separate species of woodpecker in the same genus with an entirely red head and neck that sports a solid black back and white belly. The red-bellied earns its name from the pale reddish tint on its lower underside.
It closely resembles the black-backed woodpecker, which is also three-toed. Until recently, it was considered to be the same species as the Eurasian three-toed woodpecker, P. tridactylus. [6] Adults are black on the head, wings and rump, and white from the throat to the belly; the flanks are white with black bars.
The largest surviving species is the great slaty woodpecker, which weighs 430 g (15 oz) on average and up to 563 g (19.9 oz), and measures 45 to 55 cm (18 to 22 in), but the extinct imperial woodpecker, at 55 to 61 cm (22 to 24 in), and ivory-billed woodpecker, around 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) and 516 g (18.2 oz), were probably both larger.