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

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

Florida’s House voted late Wednesday to establish the American flamingo as the new state bird, a step toward knocking the mockingbird off its perch after nearly a century. It wasn’t immediately clear ...

Picture yourself at Fort De Soto park, padding barefoot in the sand, when you come around a bend and see a flamingo in the shallow water not fifty yards away. Perhaps you were one of the lucky ones in ...

Jim Mooney has launched a high-wattage campaign to elevate the flamingo to Florida’s state bird. The Republican has handed out flamingo lapel pins and 11-by-16 prints of flamingo artwork to his 119 ...