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After Peaches' tracker failed in 2023, he was found raising a family on the Yucatan Peninsula. Researchers said this might be evidence the birds migrate between Florida and Mexico.
Peaches, the flamingo rescued in Tampa Bay after Hurricane Idalia in 2023, has returned to its presumed original home in ...
A bird bath is a functional and stylish feature that these fliers love. However, birds won't want to visit unless the bath is ...
An African flamingo that escaped a Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas twenty years ago is still keeping wildlife aficionados on ...
Most people in and out of the state (who weren't trivia buffs) would probably be surprised to find out the flamingo wasn't Florida's official state bird. It certainly seems like it. "We often say ...
Ileana Garcia, R-Miami-Dade, and HB 81 from Reps Jim Mooney, R-Islamorda and Chip LaMarca, R-Lighthouse Point, would designate the pink-feathered American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) as the ...
Ileana Garcia (R) in Miami, replaces the state's current state bird, the northern mockingbird, with the American flamingo. It would also designate the Florida scrub-jay the official state songbird.
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 ...
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 ...
The zoo has moved some birds off exhibit and temporarily closed the flamingo aviary ... animal care staff using foot baths when entering buildings and bird keepers wearing masks when hosing ...
"[There were] lots of funny comments about its colouring and it identifying as a flamingo and all sorts ... food dye or something like that in a bird bath, which is a prank most of the time." ...