Will the mockingbird be dethroned after nearly 100 years as Florida's state bird? Some lawmakers want this pink replacement.

DAVIE (CBSMiami) – Congratulations are in order for the birth of the first American flamingo at Flamingo Gardens Wildlife Sanctuary in Davie. The chick started to hatch on July 31 and fully emerged on ...

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.

On the final day of summer, five flamingos took a dip in Lake Michigan at South Beach Park in Port Washington. Wait, did we say, flamingos? Yes, there were wild flamingos in Wisconsin. But how did the ...

For many Floridians, the flamingo feels like an obvious symbol of the Sunshine State. From "Phoebe" the giant flamingo ...

Another flamingo sighting on Cape Cod has stirred birders from their nests. Avid Cape birder Mary Jo Foti, trips coordinator for the Cape Cod Bird Club, told the Cape Cod Times by email that she saw ...

"Peaches" the flamingo wades in shallow water with a visible blue band and satellite tracker on the bird's legs. Days after Hurricane Idalia blew through Florida in August, people began sighting ...

Move over mockingbird. Here comes the flamingo. Rep. Linda Chaney, R-St. Pete Beach and Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, filed a bill (HB 753) this week that would designate the American flamingo as the ...

San DiegoSan Diego — Drawing the eye with their reddish-pink and white feathers, San Diego Zoo’s flamboyant American flamingos serve as its unofficial ambassadors. Now the water-loving birds have ...

On Monday, the zoo's Bird House staff made the gruesome discovery and spotted the fox in the outdoor flamingo enclosure before it escaped. Three additional flamingos were injured and treated by ...

The flamingo chick was hatched Aug. 1 at Flamingo Gardens Wildlife Sanctuary and weighed 88 grams. Three eggs were collected from the flamingo flock and were artificially incubated. This was the first ...

The American Flamingo has been such an iconic image that has been used to represent Florida for so long — from the Greetings From Florida postcards of the last century to the opening credits of "Miami ...