A children's coloring book I use with my students lists the Utah State Bird
as the California Gull.

>On Wed, 13 Mar 1996 JLRosso at aol.com wrote:
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>> This started off innocently enough. It was mentioned to me at work that a
>> certain multi-media encyclopedia currently states that the state bird of Utah
>> is the Seagull. I was shocked, embarrassed and outraged all at the same time.
>> How could such a terrible mistake be made? Very easy, I was told by my
>> office-mates. Not everybody knows about birds, I was told. Thats not the
>> point, I protested, this information is easy to get. Why didn't they check
>> another source? To prove my point I went into another room where various
>> collections of encyclopedias are stored. I looked in five different sets of
>> encyclopedias (all 1995) and all five said that the seagull is the state bird
>> of utah. I went down to the library and found five more sources, including
>> the Columbia Concise Encyclopedia and the Random House Encyclopedia and they
>> all stated that the seagull is the state bird of utah. My amazement grew.
>> I talked to the fact-checker who is correcting this error. She told me that
>> she called up Utah and was forwarded to a "wildlife specialist". She asked
>> him what the state bird is, and he responded , the Seagull. (!) She asked him
>> what kind of seagull and he finally responded that he thought it was the
>> California Gull.
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