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The northern mockingbird is the state bird of Arkansas, [65] Florida, [66] Mississippi, [67] Tennessee, [68] and Texas, [69] and previously the state bird of South Carolina. [ 70 ] See also
It is the state bird of Georgia. As a member of the genus Toxostoma, the bird is relatively large-sized among the other thrashers. It has brown upper parts with a white under part with dark streaks. Because of this, it is often confused with the smaller wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina), among other species.
California condors are North America's largest flying land birds. [3] Among all living flying birds, the Andean condor is the third heaviest after the Kori bustard and great bustard (up to 21 kg or 46 lb), and second only to the wandering albatross (up to 3.5 m or 11 ft 6 in) in wingspan.
[100] [165] [166] [167] Forest birds seem to recognize the barred owl as a threat, with mobbing behavior evoked easily by playing recordings of their calls in the daytime. Ruffed grouse are known prey in extensive parts of the range. A wide diversity of bird prey may be occasionally hunted by barred owls in different circumstances.
The roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico. [25] The roadrunner was made popular by the Warner Bros. cartoon characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner , created in 1949, and the subject of a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts.
The Blue Hen is not a recognized chicken breed. [2] There are a number of different accounts of the origins of the Blue Hen name, which dates from 1775. [2] According to one story, during the Revolutionary War, the men of the 2nd company of the First Delaware Regiment under Captain Jonathan Caldwell, recruited mostly in Kent County, took with them blue game chickens which acquired such a ...
An old name for this species is the "rice bird", from its tendency to feed on cultivated grains during winter and migration. The bobolink breeds in the summer in the United States and Canada , with most of the summer range in the northern U.S. Bobolinks winter in southern South America , primarily Paraguay , Argentina , and Bolivia .
The California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica) is a small 10.8 cm (4.3 in) long insectivorous bird which frequents dense coastal sage scrub growth. This species was recently split from the similar black-tailed gnatcatcher of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts.