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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 eastern phoebe's call is a sharp chip, and the song, from which it gets its name, is fee-bee. The eastern wood pewee (Contopus virens) is extremely similar in appearance. It lacks the buff hue usually present on the lighter parts of the eastern phoebe's plumage, and thus has always clearly defined and contrasting wing-bars.
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.
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.
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.
Song learning in juvenile birds occurs in two stages: sensory learning, which involves the juvenile listening to the father or other conspecific bird and memorizing the spectral and temporal qualities of the song (song template), and sensorimotor learning, which involves the juvenile bird producing its own vocalizations and practicing its song ...
Record warmth and little snow in the winter of 2023-24 have allowed many birds to migrate back to Wisconsin far earlier than normal this spring. Smith: Gone barely a month, migrating birds are ...
The golden-crowned kinglet is a non-breeding resident in the winter in North Carolina. The golden-crowned kinglet is a widespread migratory bird throughout North America. Its breeding habitat is coniferous forests across Canada, the northeastern and western United States, Mexico and Central America.