Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peaches, who was blown into Florida by Hurricane Idalia in 2023, was sighted in Mexico in June 2025. Kara Durda/Audubon Florida ...

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 ...

Lawmakers are trying again to designate the flamingo as the state bird and the Florida scrub jay as the state song bird.

Hurricane Idalia brought hundreds of flamingos from Mexico to the eastern United State just over a year ago, and it appears some of the birds are lingering in the Sunshine State. Florida has long had ...

Peaches, the flamingo in Florida Bay, observed with his bright blue band still attached to his left leg. PHOTO: Kara Durda Hurricane Idalia blew a flock of 300-400 flamingos off course in August 2023, ...

Will the mockingbird finally get replaced as Florida's official state bird? A bill to raise up the leggy pink flamingo soared past the House.

MIAMI - Flamingos are ubiquitous with Florida. From plastic lawn ornaments to the state lottery, flamingos and Florida just go together. "When people think of flamingos they think of Florida and vice ...

Hurricane Idalia blew a flamboyance, or flock, of 300-400 flamingos that was likely migrating between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba off course in August 2023 and unceremoniously deposited the birds ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerome Lorenz, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) Hurricane Idalia ...