They also have long, lean, curved necks and black-tipped bills with a distinctive ... Shrimplike crustaceans are responsible for the flamingo's pink color. The birds pale in captivity unless ...

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 ...

Under the bill, which passed unanimously, the flamingo would be the state bird and the Florida Scrub-Jay would be the state ...

Recently a Republican lawmaker, Jim Mooney, filed House Bill 81 to make the American flamingo the official state bird. For all of its virtues, the Northern mockingbird (the state bird of four ...