It makes sense that popular votes would favor extremely familiar birds, perhaps explaining the plethora of Mockingbirds and Cardinals!
I believe changes to state birds, songs, trees, etc. are not all that unusual around the nation in recent decades. Whatever was suggested would need to be passed by the Legislature.
Has being the Official State Game Bird been helpful to the cause of Bobwhite conservation in any way?
Bill Pulliam Hohenwald TN On May 20, 2013, at 4:02 PM, kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Before we jump on any bandwagons, it might be worth reviewing the historical role that the Tennessee Ornitholocigal Society and numerousgrade-school children had in the original selection of the Mockingbird as the state bird of TN in the 1930s. See, for example, this link from TheMigrant... http://www.tnbirds.org/MigrantOnline/V004/V004002-003.pdfAlso note, that Northern Bobwhite IS the official state game bird of TN.Dean Edwards Knoxville, TN
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