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Lawmakers are trying again to designate the flamingo as the state bird and the Florida scrub jay as the state song bird.

One legislator, Hope Florida critic Alex Andrade, held out for the pelican in the 112-1 anti-mockingbird vote. Lawmakers are ...

The Florida House voted to replace the mockingbird with the American flamingo as the state bird. The bill now heads to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain.

Jim Mooney has launched a high-wattage campaign to elevate the flamingo to Florida’s state bird. The Republican has handed out flamingo lapel pins and 11-by-16 prints of flamingo artwork to his 119 ...

Aji and Shorty, two Chilean flamingos at the Nashville Zoo, recently injured their legs. The zoo staff spent the last few months treating the birds and fitted them with specially designed orthotics on ...

Diego Céspedes directs a 1980s period piece about a mining town that can't come to terms with the origins of its sexually transmitted plague. In the deserts of northern Chile in 1982, a so-called ...

Naples Zoo has welcomed seven new American flamingos to its expanding flock. The new group includes two males and five females, arriving from Fort Worth Zoo in Texas, the same facility where Naples ...

Hurricane Idalia blew a flamboyance, or flock, of 300-400 flamingos that was likely migrating between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba off course in August 2023 and unceremoniously deposited the birds ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerome Lorenz, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) Hurricane Idalia ...