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

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 ...

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 ...

R-Lighthouse Point ― would have dethroned the mockingbird from its perch and designated the American flamingo as our state bird and designated the Florida scrub jay as our state songbird. This is the ...

It would also designate the Florida scrub-jay the official state songbird. Florida's bird has been the northern mockingbird since 1927, and it is also designated as the state bird of Arkansas ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable ...

as the official Florida state bird and the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) as the official Florida state songbird. The House bill has yet to leave its perch, but the Senate bill has flown ...

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 ...