Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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]
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 Museum of Art: 1982 [3] Atlas The Atlas of Georgia 1985 [4] Ballet company Atlanta Ballet: 1973 [5] Beef barbecue championship Cook-off The Hawkinsville Civitan Club's "Shoot the Bull" barbecue championship 1997 [6] [7] Bird: Brown thrasher Toxostoma rufum: 1935 (1970) [note 1] [8] [9] Botanical garden State Botanical Garden of Georgia ...
About 60 miles west of Savannah on the campus of Georgia Southern University rests the Center for Wildlife Education, a more than five-acre nature reserve.
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.
List of birds of Georgia (U.S. state) This page was last edited on 16 May 2023, at 23:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
Bird flu was detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak started in 2022, officials announced on Friday. The positive case of the H5N1 strain of ...