Flamingo fans fight to unseat the mockingbird as Florida’s state bird

Flamingo fans in Florida hope new science and more sightings will help them win over the scrub jay lobby and dethrone the ...
WUFT

Flamingo vs. mockingbird: Is it bye-bye birdie for Florida’s state bird?

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 ...
Miami New Times

How To Kill a Mockingbird: Florida Mulls Flamingo as New State Bird

Miami native and current Florida House representative Jim Mooney hopes the flamingos' resurgence will sway lawmakers to ...
Miami Herald

Anything but the mockingbird: It’s time to change the Florida state bird | Opinion

Hey Florida, can we talk about our state bird? Does it really have to be the northern mockingbird? Or could we make it literally any other bird? Nothing against the northern mockingbird. Its ...
WFTV

Florida could pick a new official state bird

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 ...
Newser on MSN

Fla.'s state bird may be booted from its nest after 99 years

Florida lawmakers are mulling a question for the birds this session: Should the mockingbird give way to the flamingo as the ...
Yahoo

Florida could soon pick a new official state bird

Lawmakers in Tallahassee are considering a bill that could change Florida’s state bird from the Mockingbird to the Flamingo. Belinda Carlisle, 67, Shows She’s Barely Aged in Side-By-Side Photo in the ...