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State Bird and Game Bird Resolution
Joint Resolution of the
Georgia General Assembly
March 20, 1970
BROWN THRASHER OFFICIAL STATE
BIRD --
BOBWHITE QUAIL OFFICIAL STATE
GAME BIRD.
No. 128 (House Resolution
No. 694-1436).
A Resolution.
- Designating the Brown Thrasher as the official
Georgia State Bird and the bobwhite Quail as the official Georgia
State Game Bird; and for other purposes.
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- Whereas, the Attorney General of Georgia
has ruled in an official opinion that Georgia does not have an
official State Bird; and
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- Whereas, hitherto, the General Assembly of
Georgia has made no such selection; and
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- Whereas, since countless Georgians have always
considered the Brown Thrasher as the official Georgia State Bird
it is only fitting and proper that the Brown thrasher be given
the recognition it is due; and
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- Whereas, the familiar "bob-bob-white"
whistle of the Bobwhite Quail has charmed Georgians, and accompanied
them in their work and play since the state was merely a territory
occupied by British colonists in 1733; and
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- Whereas , thousands of Georgia sportsmen
annually trek to the fields to bag their limit of the Bobwhite
Quail; this marvelous bird can withstand a loss of two-thirds
of its population with no reduction in the spring breeding population,
thus providing the Georgia huntsmen with continued exciting sport;
and
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- Whereas, Georgia has long been hailed as
the "Quail Capitol [sic] of the World", and it seems
to be only fitting and proper that the Bobwhite Quail (of the
genus colinis) be given the recognition it is due.
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- Now, therefore, be it resolved by the General
Assembly of Georgia at the suggestion and request of the Garden
Clubs of Georgia that the Brown Thrasher is hereby designated
as the official Georgia State Bird.
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- Be it further resolved that the Bobwhite
Quail is hereby designated as the official Georgia State Game
Bird.
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- Be it further resolved that the Clerk of
the House of Representatives is hereby authorized and directed
to forward an appropriate copy of this Resolution to the Secretary
of State.
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- Approved March 20, 1970.
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- Source: Ga. Laws 1970, pp. 418-19.
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- (c) Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of
Georgia
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