Who Bird-Corrects the Bird-Correcters?

This amazing Slate piece takes to task America’s choices for official state birds as “a big joke.” Apparently, governmental ornithologists (or whoever makes the bird decisions around here) demonstrated “a general lack of thought” and didn’t even “research the bill color” of their selections.

It’s a fun read, even though the author failed to recognize that at least one state should have a dinosaur for a state bird, because same diff. Maybe Utah — they find a lot of fossils there. Extinction doesn’t matter. Grizzly bears are extinct in California, and they still have one on the flag.