WLRN

Is it time to make the flamingo Florida's state bird?

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 ...
AOL

Let’s give the flamingo its due. Florida lawmakers should make it our state bird | Opinion

For nearly 100 years, the mockingbird has served as Florida’s official state bird. Yes, the mockingbird. Not the flamingo, despite what many people think. But that grievous wrong — which began in 1927 ...
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Florida lawmakers push to make American flamingo the official state bird

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 ...
Sun Sentinel

Lawmaker tries again to make the flamingo Florida’s state bird

Florida lawmakers could again consider replacing the mockingbird as the state bird. Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, on Friday filed a proposal (HB 81) that would lead to the flamingo replacing the ...
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Florida bill would make flamingo official state bird

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After several failed attempts over the years to change Florida’s state bird, a legislator is taking another crack at unseating the mockingbird. State Rep. Jim Mooney (R-Islamorada ...