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It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s senate on Monday endorsed the idea of making the belted kingfisher — a blue and orange bird native to the state and known for its high-speed dives...
UI Senate backs kingfisher mascot. The resolution called on Chancellor Robert Jones to create a new mascot, to publicly condemn any public display of the former Chief Illiniwek and to consider...
The consideration of the belted kIngfisher as the mascot for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers an opportunity for Funk ACES Library to highlight resources for finding information about this magnificent Illinois bird and its relatives.
It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has not had a mascot for nearly 17 years. However, a growing number of students, faculty, community members and alumni have come out in support of a unique proposal that is anything but the “standard mascot fare”: an unmistakable, showy bird known for hanging around bodies of water.
The mascot based on the belted kingfisher, a native Illinois species that shares the school’s colors, has done much better.