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 ...

A Canadian man was convicted of animal cruelty charges Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its enclosure at an ...

Flamingos feed and preen in Estero Bay Preserve State Park in Florida in September. Andrew West The News-Press / USA TODAY NETWORK Ask anyone about Florida’s state bird, and they’ll likely guess it’s ...

The Florida Legislature has once again pulled out its binoculars and is scanning the skies for a new state bird. With such an impressive array of avian life, our current state bird, the northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane Idalia is being credited with delivering a flamingo-palooza to the Eastern United States this week. Some have been ...

For nearly 100 years, the mockingbird has served as Florida's official state bird. Yes, the mockingbird. Not the flamingo, despite what many people think. But that grievous wrong — which began in 1927 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rebecca Chapman remembers the moment vividly. She was standing on a beach along the Indian River on Merritt Island watching a man next to her doing a “happy ...

He took a flamingo to his Las Vegas hotel room as a joke. Now a Canadian man has been found guilty of felony animal cruelty.

One Canadian visitor now faces felony charges. His friend nearly got married. The trip was like something out of the movie “The Hangover,” a defense attorney said.

When it comes to Big Questions About Birds, here's one that rivals those about chickens crossing roads and that whole chicken-and-egg quandary: Why do flamingos stand on one leg? "Anytime I go to the ...