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Indiana State Bird
Adoption of the Indiana State BirdThe red bird, or cardinal, was adopted as the State bird of Indiana by an act of the Indiana General Assembly of the State of Indiana on March 2, 1933 as proposed by Senate Bill No. 160. The act read, in part:
The Indiana CodeThe following information is excerpted from the Indiana Code, Title 1, Article 2, Chapter 8, Section 1-2-8-1. TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Sec. 1. The bird commonly known as the Red Bird or Cardinal (Richmondena Cardinalis Cardinalis) is hereby adopted and designated as the official state bird of the state of Indiana.
Additional InformationCardinalis cardinalis (Northern Cardinal): University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web. State Bird List: List of all of the state birds. State Birds & Flowers 1000-pc Puzzle: Created at the request of The National Wildlife Federation this design is a beautiful and informative puzzle featuring every state bird perched on the appropriate state flower. Bird Feeders and Accessories: Backyard Birding > Bird Feeders & Accessories from Amazon.com. State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols: A Historical Guide, Third Edition - Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer, Greenwood Press, 2002 State Names, Flags, Seals, Songs, Birds, Flowers and Other Symbols: A Study based on historical documents giving the origin and significance of the state names, nicknames, mottoes, seals, flowers, birds, songs, and descriptive comments on the capitol buildings and on some of the leading state histories, Revised Edition - George Earlie Shankle, Ph.D., The H.W. Wilson Company, 1938 (Reprint Services Corp. 1971) Source: Indiana Code, (http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/), April 8, 2005
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