The name of the KU Mascot is the jay hawk , however the names of the costumed mascots are Big Jay & Baby Jay.
The official basketball team of Kansas is the Kansas Jayhawks. They are based in the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The mascot is a bird with a red head and a blue body.
It is a mythical bird devised from the red head of the sparrow hawk and the blue body of a bluejay. The term Jayhawk comes from the free-staters of Kansas during the Civil War. To this day, anyone born in Kansas is known by the same term that these free-staters went by, a Jayhawker.
The name of the mascot of the University of Louisville athletic teams is Captain Bird. Captain Bird is a large red bird, with a yellow beak, and an angry-looking facial expression.
The state animal is the American Buffalo and the state's bird is the Western Meadowlark
The mascot of the University of Phoenix is a phoenix a bird that lives for a long time then when that one becomes ashes a new phoenix rises from the ashes.
Cy (a red bird in the middle of a tornado) Cy the Cardinal is the official mascot of Iowa State University. Cy was introduced in 1954 and was chosen as the winning name in a contest for the mascot.
Louisiana State University has a live tiger named mike as their mascot. Southern University and A&M college has a live jaguar. Balylor University uses a live bear.
The mascot of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is Scrappy. Scrappy is a mockingbird (the State bird) who is dressed as a railroad engineer. The logo shows Scrappy riding a train.
The University of South Carolina athletics team is called the Fighting Gamecocks. They have team colours based on the gamecock and the bird is a mascot.
Herbie Husker is the official mascot for sport teams at the University of Nebraska. Hokie Bird is the official mascot for sports teams at Virginia Tech.
Liverpool mascot is called liver bird
Jayhawk is a mythical bird, a combination of a Blue Jay and a Sparrow Hawk. Although the origins are not clear, it was first known to be used by a wagon train heading west through Kansas. During the "Bleeding Kansas" days the Jayhawk became the name for vigilantes / freedom fighters working to make Kansas a free state. When the civil war broke out the first regiment of calvary created by Kansas was known as the Jayhawks. Later the term Jayhawk referred to people in the state. When the University of Kansas was created, they chose the name Jayhawk as their mascot. Today a Jayhawk is commonly used to refer to a student, alumni or fan of the University of Kansas.