The typical division of branches is into a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary. It can be contrasted with the fusion of powers in a parliamentary system where the executive and legislature (and sometimes parts of the judiciary) are unified.
Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the Heart of Dixie and the Cotton State. The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia.
About the Alabama State Bird. The bird named as the yellow-hammer by the Alabama Legislature back in 1927 is most often referred to today as the northern flicker, common flicker or simply flicker. Yellow-hammer is more often spelled yellowhammer.