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Rhode Island Red

State Bird of Rhode Island

Rhode Island Red

The Rhode Island Red Hen became Rhode Island's official state bird on May 3, 1954.

A portrait of the Rhode Island Red was presented to Governor Roberts. It had been painted in the 1920's by Arthur O. Schilling, the United States' leading poultry artist.

"The Rhode Island Red," Governor Roberts said, "has become a symbol of Rhode Islanders all over the world."

The pages shown depicting the official 50 US State birds were drawn from : "Audubon's Birds of America" an 1840 "First Octavo Edition" of John J. Audubon's complete seven volume text. A special thank-you goes to Mr. Richard Buonanno, who originally converted the Bird's of America complete text, with references, to HTML format.