A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Lawmakers are reviving a debate about whether the flamingo should replace the mockingbird as the state bird. They also want to make the Florida scrub jay ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Lawmakers in Tallahassee are considering a bill that could change Florida’s state bird from the Mockingbird to the Flamingo. The bill, which was heard by a legislative subcommittee ...

Some Florida lawmakers are pushing to make the American Flamingo the official state bird. The northern mockingbird has been Florida’s state bird for nearly a century, but a new proposal just cleared a ...

Jim Mooney has launched a high-wattage campaign to elevate the flamingo to Florida’s state bird. The Republican has handed out flamingo lapel pins and 11-by-16 prints of flamingo artwork to his 119 ...