Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida's state bird is the American flamingo (left), while the state songbird is the Florida scrub-jay (right). The long-legged ...

Crews are transforming part of the North Florida Wildlife Center into a pond for a flock of American flamingos.

Quick, what's the official Florida state bird? If you guessed the mockingbird, you'd be correct. However, you'd also be correct if you named the mockingbird as the official state bird of Arkansas, ...

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 (CBSMiami) – Monday, April 26th is International Flamingo Day and when people think of South Florida, they think of flamingos! Florida's American Flamingos are one the state's most iconic and ...

Re: the May 6 Miami Herald story, “Retirement plan for Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill: make the flamingo Florida’s state bird.” Zoo Miami’s retiring spokesperson wants to make the flamingo Florida’s state ...

When a wild flamingo showed up between two air strips at the Naval Air Station Key West on the southern tip of Florida in 2015, pilots feared a collision every day the bird stuck around. Flamingos ...