The Florida Senate has introduced Senate Bill 880, which proposes a shake-up in the state's bird designations. The bill seeks ...

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

Florida State University sophomore Olyvia Collins, a member of the student “Scrub Club” group that in 2022 convinced Seminole ...

Florida named the mockingbird its state bird back in 1927, when the state was much more agricultural and less populated on the coasts. It may not be quite as representative of today's bustling, modern ...

Florida lawmakers are once again considering replacing the state’s longtime bird, the northern mockingbird, with two uniquely Floridian species.

Twin bills in the state Senate and House are proposing that the American flamingo and the Florida scrub jay take the title of state bird. The American flamingo would be the official state bird ...

Now lawmakers want the flamingo to represent Florida alongside the Florida scrub jay. It’s being called the “Battle of the Birds.” A showdown is brewing over which bird should get top billing.

American flamingos have been seen along much of the coast but mostly in the Everglades, Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys, the FWC said. The scrub jay is uniquely Floridian, the only bird species ...