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How fitting that our nation's founders used the flight feathers of geese to sign the ... Jefferson's favorite bird was a "Mocking bird," now mockingbird, which became the state bird of Texas.

The mockingbird has been the state bird since ... Plume hunters killed the birds for their beautiful pink feathers and destroyed their colonies. The feathers were a popular fashion statement ...