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 ...
A South Florida beach better known for its nude sunbathers got a rare visit this week from another oddity: a pale pink flamingo. The lone flamingo showed up on Haulover Beach Saturday and despite a ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the largest flocks of flamingos in a decade was recently spotted in the Everglades by avian ecologist and restoration ...
MIAMI—Tourist shops across Florida hawk T-shirts, hats and beach bags emblazoned with the flamingo. A two-story flamingo sculpture named Phoebe welcomes visitors at Tampa International Airport.
Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, and Rep. Linda Chaney, R-St. Pete Beach, filed a bill (HB 753) this week that would designate the American flamingo as the Florida state bird. The designation would take ...