A hundred years after they disappeared, the state’s iconic birds have returned to their namesake outpost in the Everglades—along with a new lodge and updated visitor facilities.

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 ...

GAINESVILLE – 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 ...

Picture yourself at Fort De Soto park, padding barefoot in the sand, when you come around a bend and see a flamingo in the shallow water not fifty yards away. Perhaps you were one of the lucky ones in ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Monday, April 26, is International Flamingo Day, and if there’s anything more quintessentially South Florida than coconut trees and sunshine, it’s the American Flamingo.

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Lawmakers have tried for years to christen the flamingo as Florida’s state bird. But a bill that passed the House on Wednesday may finally clear the path for what supporters ...