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

Other predators include the osprey or fish hawk ... Both are dark-colored water birds that dive for fish in Florida, but they have several differences that can help you tell them apart.

Florida lawmakers have been dissing the scrub-jay for 26 years now. It’s time for Florida’s only uniquely native bird to play ...

After a proposal re-emerged to replace the mockingbird as Florida’s state bird, Sen. Tina Polsky, D-Boca Raton, wants ...

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 ...

Sick or crippled critters keep coming, often faster than the cash to cure them.

Free-roaming cats also may be a potential risk because of their common contact with wild birds and humans. Despite Florida Wildlife Hospital's front-row seat on emerging diseases and animal abuse ...

As the Florida Legislature warms ... Yet when it came time to pick a bird to represent us, the Legislature decided on a meh kind of common yardbird you’d find in any backyard anywhere.

FLORIDA, USA — A Florida lawmaker filed a bill on Friday that aims to replace the mockingbird with the flamingo as the official state bird. The mockingbird became Florida's state bird in 1927 ...