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The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [ 4 ] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States , American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
The American goldfinch is the state bird of New Jersey. This list of birds of New Jersey includes species credibly documented in the U.S. state of New Jersey and accepted by the New Jersey Bird Records Committee (NJBRC). As of March 2024 the list contained 490 species and a species pair.
On May 10, 2019, New Jersey became the second state in the United States to have an Official State Microbe, the bacterium Streptomyces griseus. [6] On January 21, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation that officially designates the Seeing Eye dog as the state dog of New Jersey. [7]
The American goldfinch is the state bird of Iowa and New Jersey, where it is called the eastern goldfinch, and Washington, where it is called the willow goldfinch. [37] It was chosen by schoolchildren in Washington in 1951.
New Jersey kept the bird on its state list because of disturbances to nests and habitat threats. The use of the insecticide DDT, as well as habitat destruction, played a significant role in the ...
[nb 1] As of March 2019, twenty-eight of the fifty states have named a state reptile; Utah and New Jersey both adopted an official state repitile in the 2010s. [51] [33] In contrast to state reptiles, state birds have been more rapidly adopted, with the first state designating one in 1927 and the fiftieth in 1973. [78]
The American robin is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. [46] It was depicted on the 1986 Birds of Canada series Canadian $2 note (this note was subsequently withdrawn.) [47] [48] It has a place in Native American mythology.
As the October bear hunt nears, new rules for using bird feeders are before state legislators. Feed birds, not bears, NJ urges residents. Why state may put new rules on bird feeders