Miami native and current Florida House representative Jim Mooney hopes the flamingos' resurgence will sway lawmakers to ...

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Lawmakers are reviving a debate about whether the flamingo should replace the mockingbird as the state bird. They also want to make the Florida scrub jay ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Lawmakers in Tallahassee are considering a bill that could change Florida’s state bird from the Mockingbird to the Flamingo. The bill, which was heard by a legislative subcommittee ...

Hey Florida, can we talk about our state bird? Does it really have to be the northern mockingbird? Or could we make it literally any other bird? Nothing against the northern mockingbird. Its ...

Some Florida lawmakers are pushing to make the American Flamingo the official state bird. The northern mockingbird has been Florida’s state bird for nearly a century, but a new proposal just cleared a ...

Flamingo fans in Florida hope new science and more sightings will help them win over the scrub jay lobby and dethrone the mockingbird.