For nearly 100 years, the mockingbird has served as Florida’s official state bird. Yes, the mockingbird. Not the flamingo, despite what many people think. But that grievous wrong — which began in 1927 ...

Team Flamingo is facing off against the ‘forces of Big Mockingbird’ in a fight that’s consuming the state.

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — When Keith Ramos heard a small flock of American flamingos had landed last fall at the nature preserve he oversees off Florida’s Atlantic coast, he rushed to get a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Florida state Representative James Vernon "Jim" Mooney has filed a ...

A Caribbean flamingo hatched at Zoo Miami on Saturday, June 6. The sex of the hatchling is still unknown. The egg was artificially incubated to avoid the risk of loss to environmental conditions such ...

Flamingo was once a fishing village at the very tip of the Florida peninsula accessible primarily by boat. It’s less remote now, but as the most distant outpost in Everglades National Park, it still ...

Two months ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, Anna Yu, a park ranger in western Florida, heard a rumor from a local birder: for the first time in years, somebody had spotted a flamingo near ...