[TN-Bird] Re: Some Mockingbird History in TN
- From: "Charles P. Nicholson" <cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:38:56 -0500
This interesting account omits the fact that the voters were school
children.
Chuck Nicholson
Norris, TN
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Subject: [TN-Bird] Some Mockingbird History in TN
I thought this interesting -- it is copied from
http://www.geobop.com/Symbols/Animals/Birds/1/Mockingbird/
"There remain only five states that have as yet not joined in the
selection of a State bird. These are Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey,
and Tennessee." So wrote state bird proponent Katherine B. Tippetts in
Nature Magazine in 1932.
Tippetts though the painted bunting, or nonpareil, would make an
appropriate Tennessee mascot. Though her favorite wasn't adopted, Tippetts'
article may have spurred Tennessee bird lovers into action.
The Tennessee Ornithological Society planned a state-wide balloting for
the selection of an official state bird. Beginning on March 15, 1933, the
Nashville Banner began printing a series of articles on fifteen candidates,
including the mockingbird, robin, wood thrush, bluebird, flicker, pileated
woodpecker, brown thrasher, field sparrow, cardinal, Bewick's wren, towhee,
sparrow hawk, chickadee, and bobwhite.
Tennesseans adopted the first and last candidates! According to the
Nashville Banner of April 16, 1933, the Mockingbird was selected on April
11. Of the 72,031 votes cast, the mockingbird received 15,553, the robin
15,073, the cardinal 13,969, the bobwhite 10,460, the bluebird 9,125, and
others 8,751. The robin was actually ahead, until votes from the Memphis
area (Shelby County) began coming in.
The mockingbird officially became the state bird on April 22, 1933, the
same day the iris became the state flower.
The bobwhite quail was adopted as Tennessee's official state game bird in
1988."
Terry Thornton, RInnie, TN (Just north of Crossville on the Cumberland
Plateau)
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