CBS News Miami Live. Florida's mockingbird is fighting to save its title as state bird, which it has held for nearly 100 years, as lawmakers consider replacing it with two other native birds - the ...

A lawmaker in Florida has filed a bill to make the flamingo the official state bird. Newsweek has contacted Florida's ...

Two bills in the Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a more colorful representative.

Florida lawmakers are considering replacing the mockingbird as the state bird with the flamingo and scrub-jay. This is the eighth attempt in 25 years to replace the mockingbird.

Actually, it would get two. SB 880, from Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Miami-Dade, and HB 81 from Reps Jim Mooney, R-Islamorda and Chip LaMarca, R-Lighthouse Point, would designate the pink-feathered American ...

The number of flamingos at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and across Florida has been rising, giving hope for a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A battle over Florida’s state bird has once again taken hold in the state legislature. Twin bills in the state Senate and House are proposing that the American flamingo ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Senate bill is making its way through the legislature that could change Florida's state bird after almost a century. Senate Bill 880, proposed by State Sen. Ileana ...

FORT MYERS, Florida — Florida’s mockingbird is fighting to save its title as state bird, which it has held for nearly 100 years, as lawmakers consider replacing it with two other Florida natives.

Polsky said she believed involving children also would raise awareness about Florida’s birds. In 2008, when 78,000 children took part in a similar survey, they chose the American osprey, ...

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

A northern mockingbird, Florida’s state bird, overlooks sand pine scrubs in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.