They're bright pink, huge and hard to miss. For decades, flamingos have been seen mostly as plastic lawn ornaments. Hurricane Idalia blew in scores of the birds back to our shores. But how many ...

We were buoyed by the miracle of nature, that something as destructive as a hurricane could deposit something so rare and beautiful into our midst.

From the opening credits of Miami Vice, to the lottery logo, to souvenirs of all sorts, the American flamingo is a symbol of Florida. But it’s not our state bird: instead, it’s the Northern ...

Florida’s other large pink bird, the roseate spoonbill, is abandoning the Everglades and moving farther north because traditional feeding and nesting grounds are frequently inundated.

Florida Flamingos at Zoo Miami. For decades, flamingos in the wild in Florida were generally thought to be escapees or vagrants, as alien to the state as the hot pink plastic yard birds that came ...

The flamingo is an icon of Florida, but there's more to the flashy bird than bold pink feathers and lanky legs. Here are five facts you maybe didn't know about flamingos: 1) Flamingos weren't ...

Flamingos just feel like they belong in Florida. They're visually loud, shrimp-eating birds that wade in shallow waters, often standing on one slinky pink leg.

Hurricane Idalia’s incredible influx of flamingos expanded deeper into the country over the past 10 days with sightings of the bright pink birds in Wisconsin, Missouri and even Kansas.. Bird ...

Florida’s booming tourist industry has also thrown its hat in the ring. They’ve used these pretty pink birds to promote travel to Florida for over a century — on postcards, travel posters ...

Florida has more tropical and unusual birds than any state short of Hawaii. Yet in 1927, our forefathers chose one of the most common American birds to represent Florida (along with four other ...

Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, and Rep. Linda Chaney, R-St. Pete Beach, filed a bill (HB 753) this week that would designate the American flamingo as the Florida state bird. The designation would ...

A Roseate Spoonbill, a nearly 3-foot-tall pink bird that looks like it stepped out of a cartoon, was recently sighted at the Heislerville Wildlife Management Area in Cumberland County.