The Cardinal became the state bird in 1950.
It's short for Virgina. It is also a common miss-spelling for Gina and Jenna.
An english settler named it after Virgina.
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it was named that because it was the western part of Virgina at the time of the civil war
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James Webb
Queen Elizabeth the virgin queen
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big head
virgina
The feminine form of Virginius, name of a Roman gens.