A Florida Keys lawmaker is trying to make the American flamingo the official state bird, and we agree | Opinion ...

Despite this tepid welcome, in the last few years flamingos have started to resettle in the state quietly. As large and showy ...

The flamingo sighting has blown up on “birding social media,” Faherty said, including Facebook and GroupMe channels and even the American Birding Association Rare Bird Alert Facebook page ...

Flamingos, known for their vibrant pink feathers and long legs, have a notable history in Florida and could become its state ...

DENNIS - For the second time this year, a flamingo has been spotted in Massachusetts. A member of the Facebook group "Cape Cod Birders" took a picture of the American flamingo on Chapin Beach in ...

A proposal has been filed that would lead to the flamingo being designated as Florida’s bird. A separate proposal would ask young people what they think.

Islamorada Republican Rep. Jim Mooney’s bill would actually designate two birds in its place: the American Flamingo as the state bird and the Florida scrub-jay as the state songbird. Mooney ...

A bill has been filed to change Florida’s state bird from the mockingbird to the flamingo and make the scrub jay the state’s official songbird. A similar bill was filed last year, but did not pass. If ...

Florida state Representative James Vernon "Jim" Mooney has filed a motion to replace the current state bird, the mockingbird, with the American flamingo. Mooney, a Republican who represents ...

On Friday, Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada filed a proposal (HB 81) for the 2025 legislative session to make the American flamingo the official state bird and the Florida scrub-jay the official ...

The new flamingo habitat at the Denver Zoo. Beginning in 2014, a Chilean flamingo named Lance Bass and an American flamingo named Freddie Mercury partnered up and were in a same-sex relationship.

In fact, the anti-mockingbirders point out, both the scrub jay and flamingo are native Floridians. Flamingo supporters also argue their bird is widely associated with Florida, having been long ...