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. The bills have ...

Proposed purchase would double the size of quarter-acre Kathleen Belleville Nature Preserve and benefit gopher tortoises and ...

She has previously sponsored bills to nominate the blue-and-gray Florida scrub jay, exclusively native to Florida, as the state bird. The mockingbird has a stable population in Florida and is ...

There's only one bird that has yet to make an appearance in the feeder: our state bird, the mockingbird. Yeah, I know they ...

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 flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) as the ...

The scrub jay is uniquely Floridian, the only bird species that lives exclusively in the state, and it never leaves. "The scrub-jay is not just a songbird; it is a call to protect what is rare and ...

It's rare that I'm still talking about a Christmas gift more than four months after unwrapping it. But, this year, my wife bought me one of those bird feeders with a camera attached. It allows me ...

This Florida Scrub-jay was photographed in the vicinity ... become “stepping stone” habitat areas for both the jays and migrating birds. The 46 protected parcels include 18 North Port and ...

Ileana Garcia (R) in Miami, replaces the state's current state bird, the northern mockingbird, with the American flamingo. It would also designate the Florida scrub-jay the official state songbird.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — The effort to change Florida’s state bird failed once again this year. The mockingbird, which holds the title of the state bird in four additional states, remains ...

It is asking the state to designate the American Flamingo as the official state bird, replacing the northern Mockingbird and the state songbird as the Florida scrub-jay. A similar bill ...