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I he scissor-tailed flycatcher holds the title in Oklahoma. In Vermont it’s the hermit thrush. All 50 states, in fact, have chosen official state birds and many have also named official mammals, trees, and flowers. Eighteen states have gone so far as to designate official state insects.
The complete lists can be found in a new publication available frree from the National Wildlife Federation—“Official Birds, Mammals, Trees, Flowers, Insects, and Fish of the U.S., Territories, and Possessions."
The NWF pamphlet reveals that the most honored bird in the U.S. is the cardinal, which is the official bird in seven states (Illinois, Indiana.' Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia), perhaps in gratitude^ for the bird’s helpful habit of feeding on the destructive boll weevil and codling moth. Two states chose endangered species for their state bird: Hawaii took the nene (Hawaiian goose), and Louisiana, the brown pelican.
The most popular official mammal among the 23 states that have named one is the white-tailed deer, chosen by South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi. Three states appointed endangered mammals as their mascots: Connecticut, the sperm whale; Florida, the manatee; and Hawaii, the humpback whale. Virginia declined to name a state mammal, but chose instead to appoint an official state dog: the foxhound, of course, in honor of the state’s renowned fox hunts. Maryland also named an official state dog—the Chesapeake Bay retriever, while Idaho calls the
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