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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.
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The South Georgia pipit (Anthus antarcticus) is a sparrow-sized bird only found on the South Georgia archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula. It is the only songbird in Antarctica, South Georgia's only passerine, and one of the few non-seabirds of the region. It builds nests from dried grass, usually within tussac grass, and lays four eggs a ...
Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee have designated an additional "state game bird" for the purpose of hunting. The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [4]
It is endemic to the large (3,756 km 2) subantarctic island of South Georgia and its accompanying archipelago, and is a vagrant to the South Sandwich Islands. [3] It was among the birds noted by James Cook in January 1775, on the occasion of the first recorded landing on South Georgia, [4] and was formerly considered a full species.
A few days before Halloween, data collectors at the Jekyll Island Banding Station (JIBS) observe a steady, yet predictable, decline of birds in nets, signaling the end of migration.
Wildlife biologist Tim Keyes of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources describes the coast as "full of bird activity." "And the Colonial Coast Birding Trail is an excellent entry way to this ...
Endemic birds of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (3 P) Pages in category "Fauna of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.