Actually, it would get two. SB 880, from Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Miami-Dade, and HB 81 from Reps Jim Mooney, R-Islamorda and Chip LaMarca, R-Lighthouse Point, would designate the pink-feathered American ...

Flamingo fans are wading into Florida’s perennial debate over whether to dethrone the noisy and occasionally combative mockingbird as the reigning state bird after nearly a century.

Flamingos had mostly disappeared from Florida after a century of hunting and mass development. That changed last year when Hurricane Idalia blew in — bringing with her several flamboyant flocks.

Flamingo lawn ornaments anywhere in the country are a nod to Florida, albeit with a side of shade at times. We are every bit as much the flamingo state as we are the Sunshine State.

Flamingos have been spotted in eight states from Florida to ... making the bird 23 years old. ... an avid birder and co-author of a 2007 research paper on a flamingo sighting in northeast Florida.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida zoo welcomed a new addition earlier this month. On Friday, June 14, a Caribbean flamingo hatched at Zoo Miami after 28 days of incubating. Florida’s balloon ban ...

Our old friend, Peaches. “We are humbled by the resilience of this bird. ... Once abundant in Florida, the flamingo population plummeted during the 19th-century plume trade.

Two bills in Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a flamingo.