JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Flamingo numbers are growing in Florida! Last seen in the 1940s and 50s, they were nearly wiped out by ...

Once wiped out by hunters and thought to be gone for good, Florida’s iconic flamingos are making a comeback, carried home by ...

Peaches, who was blown into Florida by Hurricane Idalia in 2023, was sighted in Mexico in June 2025. Kara Durda/Audubon Florida Jerome Lorenz, Florida International University Hurricane Idalia blew a ...

Florida lawmakers will get a chance in 2026 to ditch the common mockingbird in favor of the America flamingo as the state ...

Flamingos are finally here, stretched across the Sunshine State like pink-and-gray confetti in the wake of Hurricane Idalia. Though they've long been associated with everything Florida, a debate has ...

NAPLES, Fla. – From yard art to paintings, sculptures, mailboxes, T-shirts, ties, socks and underwear, the likeness of a flamingo can show up nearly anywhere in Florida. Flamingos even adorn Florida's ...

Though American flamingos are native to South Florida, they have not nested or existed in significant, wild populations here for more than a century NBC Universal, Inc. There’s no doubt that this bird ...

After more than a century of absence, wild flamingos are returning to Florida’s Everglades. The stunning comeback was, in ...

There’s no doubt that this bird — with its seemingly endless neck, perched on its stilt-like legs one at a time, that eats upside down, filters food through its nose and will only mate under a very ...

(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 ...