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

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

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 ...

But did you know there is a special type of bird that makes the Sunshine State unique? An eye-catching blue species of fowl that can only be found in Florida: meet the Florida Scrub-Jay.

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

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 ...

Members of the Wildlife Conservation Club at Seminole High School urged a Senate committee recently to make the Florida Scrub-Jay the state bird. And the committee’s vote was unanimous.

Florida lawmakers are considering bills to replace the mockingbird with the flamingo as the state bird and the scrub-jay as the state songbird. The flamingo is seen as a unique symbol of Florida ...

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 ...