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Flamingo set to strut in as Florida's state bird, Senate bill proposes
The Florida Senate has introduced Senate Bill 880, which proposes a shake-up in the state's bird designations. The bill seeks ...
The St. Lucie News-Tribune on MSN3d
Bye bye mockingbird? Florida might replace state bird after nearly 100 years
Two bills in the Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a ...
Florida Politics6d
Bill to make flamingo, scrub-jay Florida’s state birds flies through penultimate Senate stop
Florida State University sophomore Olyvia Collins, a member of the student “Scrub Club” group that in 2022 convinced Seminole ...
Battle of the birds: Florida considers changing state bird
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A battle over Florida’s state bird has once again taken hold in the state legislature. Twin bills in the state Senate and House are proposing that the American flamingo and the ...
Treasure Coast Newspapers4d
Bye bye mockingbird? Florida might replace state bird after nearly 100 years
Ileana Garcia, R-Miami-Dade, and HB 81 from Reps Jim Mooney, R-Islamorda and Chip LaMarca, R-Lighthouse Point, would designate the pink-feathered American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber ...
Florida lawmakers consider ousting mockingbird as state bird after nearly 100 years
Florida named the mockingbird its state bird back in 1927, when the state was much more agricultural and less populated on the coasts. It may not be quite as representative of today's bustling, modern ...
Amy Sherald’s Black Beauty
Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
500,000 Cranes Are Headed for Nebraska in One of Earth’s Greatest Migrations
The pink flamingos on Kenya’s Lake Nakuru, some years in the millions, the South American flamingo species that pack several lakes in the Andes. I am filled with a mixture of awe, nostalgia ...