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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 ...
The selection of state birds began with Kentucky adopting the northern cardinal in 1926. It continued when the legislatures for Alabama, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming selected their state birds after a campaign was started by the General Federation of Women's Clubs to name official state birds in the 1920s.
"Oh Wisconsin, Land of My Dreams" 2001 Beverage: Milk: 1987 Dance: Polka: 1993 Pastry: Kringle [2] 2013 Slogan: America's Dairyland [3] 1940 Song "On, Wisconsin!" 1959 Symbol of peace: Mourning dove Zenaidura macroura carolinensis: 1971 Tartan: Wisconsin tartan [4] [5] 2007 Waltz "The Wisconsin Waltz" 2001
You can contribute by reporting your observations of Wisconsin birds. Report a rare bird : This information is used for species on Wisconsin's Natural Heritage Working List.
To encourage hummingbirds to your yard, you can grow a variety of nectar-producing flowers and have feeders to supplement when blooms are in short supply, says the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The wood thrush has been reported to have one of the most beautiful songs of North American birds. [18] American naturalist Henry David Thoreau wrote: Whenever a man hears it he is young, and Nature is in her spring; wherever he hears it, it is a new world and a free country, and the gates of Heaven are not shut against him.
The triple whammy of record warmth, very little snow and lack of ice in Wisconsin during the winter of 2023-24 has made headlines.. The birds have noticed, too. Many species are migrating to the ...