April 8, 1931
The American robin became the official state bird.
The Michigan Audubon Society had conducted a contest to choose a state bird and the American robin received almost one-fourth of the 200,000 votes. The closest runner-up was the chickadee. Sponsors called the robin “the best-known and best-loved of all the birds in the state of Michigan.”
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