To the “horrid brown bird” hater. It is a limpkin which eats apple snails. Several species of the apple snails are invasive in Florida. So, this bird helps our natural environment.

A northern mockingbird, Florida’s state bird, overlooks sand pine scrubs in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

Birders recording on eBird.org, a crowd-sourced site run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, have recorded more than 230 species, including numerous wading birds, brown thrashers, buntings and the ...

NEW THIS AFTERNOON, SOME ADDITIONS TO THE PITTSBURGH ZOO. THESE ARE HUMBOLDT PENGUINS AND BROWN PELICANS. THE PENGUINS ARE ...

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

In 2008, when 78,000 children took part in a similar survey, they chose the American osprey, a brown and white hawk. It didn’t fly. ... exclusively native to Florida, as the state bird.

The “Audubon’s Birds of Florida” art show runs Sept. 21 through March 2 in the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art.

Brown told NBC 6 that Florida is also home to many of them. "We actually have more in Florida than any other state in the United States, except Alaska, and it's because they primarily fish so they ...

The "Audubon's Birds of Florida" exhibit at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art of the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach will be on display through March 2.