Florida lawmakers will get a chance in 2026 to ditch the common mockingbird in favor of the America flamingo as the state ...

Florida lawmakers will once again consider changing the official state bird in the upcoming legislative session.

The Florida Legislature has once again pulled out its binoculars and is scanning the skies for a new state bird. With such an impressive array of avian life, our current state bird, the northern ...

After a proposal re-emerged to replace the mockingbird as Florida’s state bird, Sen. Tina Polsky, D-Boca Raton, wants wildlife officials to ask young people what they think. Polsky on Monday filed a ...

A bill to change the official state bird has been filed in the Florida House of Representatives. Republican Representative Jim Mooney filed House Bill 81 on Jan. 3 proposing to make the American ...

National Park Service Data Manager and Ecologist Judd Patterson photographed this flock of flamingos in Lake Ingram in 2012, a sighting that helped launch a study that eventually concluded flamingos ...

Fellow Floridians, we owe the American flamingo a lot. Let us count the ways. First, and most obviously, we have been using it as our pink mascot for decades. We slap it onto just about everything to ...

When you land at the Tampa International Airport, you can’t miss the 21-foot flamingo. At first, I rolled my eyes; after all, flamingos are always in our face here in Florida. But recently I’ve ...

Hurricane Idalia is being credited with delivering a flamingo-palooza to the Eastern United States this week. The iconic, pink plumaged birds first started showing up all over Florida, on both coasts ...