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.

Sure, flamingos are cool and all. The iconic pink birds associated with our finest Target swim trunks have made a Florida comeback thanks to hurricanes pushing them north.

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 ...

The Florida grasshopper sparrow, one of the most endangered birds in North America, is showing encouraging signs after more than a decade of captive breeding and carefully managed releases into the ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in Florida using data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch. Birds are ranked by the percent of sites visited ...

John James Audubon, the pioneer field biologist and great bird artist of his time, who created the incomparable anthology "Birds Of America", is seen in this January 1951 photo, taken from an 1851 ...

HOBE SOUND, Fla. — The northern mockingbird has done it again. Known for its ability to vocally mimic at least a dozen other species, the gray and white bird held off challenges for a fourth ...

Lawmakers are trying again to designate the flamingo as the state bird and the Florida scrub jay as the state song bird.

The mockingbird has been Florida's state bird since 1927, when the state was much more agricultural and less populated on the coasts. The proposed change highlights the state's modern identity and the ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most commonly hunted migratory birds in Florida using data from a report released by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in August 2025. Duck and goose species are ranked ...