Hurricane Idalia blew a flamboyance, or flock, of 300-400 flamingos that was likely migrating between the Yucatan Peninsula ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — When Keith Ramos heard a small flock of American flamingos had landed last fall at the nature preserve he oversees off Florida’s Atlantic coast, he rushed to get a ...

Re: the May 6 Miami Herald story, “Retirement plan for Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill: make the flamingo Florida’s state bird.” Zoo Miami’s retiring spokesperson wants to make the flamingo Florida’s state ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida last August, the Category 3 ...

Team Flamingo is facing off against the ‘forces of Big Mockingbird’ in a political flap that’s consuming the state.

Two months ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, Anna Yu, a park ranger in western Florida, heard a rumor from a local birder: for the first time in years, somebody had spotted a flamingo near ...

Florida’s House voted late Wednesday to establish the American flamingo as the new state bird, a step toward knocking the mockingbird off its perch after nearly a century. It wasn’t immediately clear ...