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What is the State Bird of Florida?

10,000 Birds

Florida is one of America’s great avian hot spots, renowned for its impressive bird diversity. The official Florida checklist counts over 500 species, and thus Florida citizens had a wealth of State Bird candidates to choose from when they named the Florida state bird in 1927. Think as a human you are immune?

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

10,000 Birds

More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences.

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