Flamingo fans in Florida hope new science and more sightings will help them win over the scrub jay lobby and dethrone the ...

Miami native and current Florida House representative Jim Mooney hopes the flamingos' resurgence will sway lawmakers to ...

For nearly 100 years, the mockingbird has served as Florida’s official state bird. Yes, the mockingbird. Not the flamingo, despite what many people think. But that grievous wrong — which began in 1927 ...

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 ...

"Peaches" the flamingo wades in shallow water with a visible blue band and satellite tracker on the bird's legs. Days after Hurricane Idalia blew through Florida in August, people began sighting ...

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Lawmakers are reviving a debate about whether the flamingo should replace the mockingbird as the state bird. They also want to make the Florida scrub jay ...

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 ...

MIAMI - Flamingos are ubiquitous with Florida. From plastic lawn ornaments to the state lottery, flamingos and Florida just go together. "When people think of flamingos they think of Florida and vice ...

Florida state Representative James Vernon "Jim" Mooney has filed a motion to replace the current state bird, the mockingbird, with the American flamingo. Mooney, a Republican who represents Islamorada ...

Hurricane Idalia blew a flamboyance (flock) of 300 to 400 flamingos that was likely migrating between the Yucatán Peninsula and Cuba off course in August 2023 and unceremoniously deposited the birds ...