The Florida Legislature has once again pulled out its binoculars and is scanning the skies for a new state bird. With such an impressive array of avian life, our current state bird, the northern ...

When you land at the Tampa International Airport, you can’t miss the 21-foot flamingo. At first, I rolled my eyes; after all, flamingos are always in our face here in Florida. But recently I’ve ...

A study led by biology graduate student Jessica Folsom used genomic data in determining the flamingo population and its ...

National Park Service Data Manager and Ecologist Judd Patterson photographed this flock of flamingos in Lake Ingram in 2012, a sighting that helped launch a study that eventually concluded flamingos ...

A South Florida city many may not have heard of has made the New York Times list of 52 places to go in 2024. Squeaking in at No. 52, Flamingo was the only Florida location was on the New York Times ...

Quick, what's the official Florida state bird? If you guessed the mockingbird, you'd be correct. However, you'd also be correct if you named the mockingbird as the official state bird of Arkansas, ...

Hurricane Idalia blew a flamboyance (flock) of 300 to 400 flamingos that was likely migrating between the Yucatán Peninsula and Cuba off course in August 2023 and unceremoniously deposited the birds ...

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 ...

A Florida man accused of attacking and killing a flamingo at Busch Gardens in Tampa was hit and killed by a pickup truck while crossing an Orlando street earlier this month, according to the Florida ...

The Florida Legislature has once again pulled out its binoculars and is scanning the skies for a new state bird. With such an impressive array of avian life, our current state bird, the northern ...