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 Florida Senate has introduced Senate Bill 880, which proposes a shake-up in the state's bird designations. The bill seeks ...

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

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 ...

Previous attempts to change the state bird have been blocked by NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer, who has since retired. Quick, what's the official Florida state bird? If you guessed the mockingbird ...

Eventually, the birds abandoned ... Sunshine State, which has “more established nonnative reptile and amphibian species than anywhere else in the world,” the University of Florida reports.

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 ...

Pete Marocco, the Trump administration official who played a major role in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, has left the State Department, a U.S. official said on April 13.

Photo: Zuma Press/Shutterstock WASHINGTON—A key architect of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash foreign aid has left the State Department after less than three months on the job ...