Treasure Coast Newspapers

Bye bye mockingbird? Florida might replace state bird after nearly 100 years

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, ...
WLRN

Mockingbird keeps perch as state bird as bills flop favoring others in Capitol

HOBE SOUND, Fla. – The northern mockingbird has done it again. Known for its ability to vocally mimic at least a dozen other species, the gray-and-white bird held off challenges for a fourth ...
Orlando Sentinel

Lawmaker tries again to dethrone mockingbird as Florida’s state bird

TALLAHASSEE – For nearly a century, the mockingbird has reigned supreme as the state bird of Florida, surviving multiple coup attempts by the Florida Legislature. Once again, a lawmaker this year ...
WLRN

Florida lawmakers could consider another push to make the flamingo the 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 ...
The Floridian

South Florida Lawmaker Files Bill to Make American Flamingo Official State Bird

Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez (R-Doral) filed a bill this week in the legislature to make the American flamingo the official state bird and desig ...