Two bills in the Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a ...

The American flamingo would be the official state bird, and the Florida scrub jay would be the official state songbird. Currently, the state bird is the northern mockingbird, desi ...

Florida State University sophomore Olyvia Collins, a member of the student “Scrub Club” group that in 2022 convinced Seminole ...

Members of the Wildlife Conservation Club at Seminole High School urged a Senate committee recently to make the Florida Scrub-Jay the state bird. And the committee’s vote was unanimous.

Swallow-tailed kites arrived in Florida a few weeks ago ... are arguably the most acrobatic and athletic of birds found in the Sunshine State. And they will be gliding, swooping, flipping and ...