Will the mockingbird finally get replaced as Florida's official state bird? A bill to raise up the leggy pink flamingo soared ...

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

A bill that would designate the flamingo as Florida's state bird breezed through the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

The Florida House voted to replace the mockingbird with the American flamingo as the state bird. The bill now heads to the ...

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

Supporters of the bill said it symbolizes environmental restoration in Florida, which contributed to the flamingo’s recent ...

I drive with a cardinal on my license plate. It costs a little more, but not as much as a plate that says COWBIRD, which I observed last year during a visit to Champaign-Urbana. If the owner of that ...

Flamingos feed and preen in Estero Bay Preserve State Park in Florida in September. Andrew West The News-Press / USA TODAY NETWORK Ask anyone about Florida’s state bird, and they’ll likely guess it’s ...

It’s common knowledge that each U.S. state has a state bird. But do you know how each of these birds were chosen? The tradition originated in the 1920s when the General Federation of Women’s Clubs ...