List of U.S. state birds

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.

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.