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Wisconsin Symbols
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Wisconsin State Bird
Robin
(Turdus migratorius)
Adopted on June 4, 1949.
In 1926-27, Wisconsin school children voted to select a state bird. The robin, Turdus migratorius, received twice the votes given any other bird. Chapter 218, Laws of 1949, which created Section 1.10 of the statutes, officially made the robin the state bird.
Wisconsin Legislature
1.10 State song, state ballad, state waltz, state dance, and state symbols.
(3) The Wisconsin state symbols are as follows:
(f) The robin (turdus migratorius) is the state bird.
Description
- Length: 8.5 inches
- Black to dark gray head
- Broken eye ring
- Dull red breast and belly
- White undertail coverts
- Gray upperparts
- Streaked throat
- Thin yellow bill
- Sexes similar-female somewhat paler
- Winter plumage is somewhat paler than Summer plumage
- Juveniles have spotted, whiter breasts
- Common in residential areas where it often forages on lawns
- Often sings very early in morning
- Often found in large flocks outside of breeding season
Familiar in the summertime throughout North America, the American Robin is seen from Alaska to Virginia. Most people do not know that many Robins spend the entire winter in New England. They roost among the evergreens in the swamps where they feed on winter berries.
Taxonomic Hierarchy
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| Kingdom |
Animalia -- animals |
| Phylum |
Chordata -- chordates |
| Subphylum |
Vertebrata -- vertebrates |
| Class |
Aves -- birds |
| Order |
Passeriformes -- perching birds |
| Family |
Muscicapidae -- old world flycatchers |
| Genus |
Turdus Linnaeus, 1758 -- robins |
| Species |
Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 -- american robin, Mirlo primavera |
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Official State Birds
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Bird:
a. Any of the class Aves of warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered vertebrates with forelimbs modified to form wings.
b. Such an animal hunted as game.
c. Such an animal, especially a chicken or turkey, used as food State Bird:
a. Bird selected (as by the legislature) as an emblem of a state of the United States. NOTE: Many states have more than one official bird, or have designate state birds more specifically. |
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