A state representative from the Florida Keys has filed a bill to make the American flamingo Florida's official state bird.

Despite seven attempts by various lawmakers to dethrone it over a 25-year span, the northern mockingbird still reigns as the official bird of Florida. State Rep. Jim Mooney, an Islamorada ...

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 ...

Florida lawmakers could again consider replacing the mockingbird as the state bird. Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, filed a proposal (HB 81) that would lead to the flamingo replacing the mockingbird, ...

Scrub jay supporters note their candidate is uniquely Floridian, and unlike the flamingo or mockingbird, it never leaves the state. Flamingos got some exposure when Hurricane Idalia in 2023 flung ...

This is the hilarious moment beachgoers were swarmed by a flock of screeching seagulls outside their hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, on December 14. Dozens of noisy birds swooped down on the tourists, ...