State lawmakers resist attempts to dethrone Florida's mockingbird as state bird for fourth year, despite new proposals for ...

Senate Bill 880, proposed by State Sen. Ileana Garcia (R) in Miami, replaces the state's current state bird, the northern ...

SB 880, filed by State Sen. Ileana Garcia (R) Miami, has cleared a hurdle in the Senate. It is asking the state to designate the American Flamingo as the official state bird, replacing it with the ...

Millions of birds are flying over Mississippi every night for the next few weeks. You can help them move safely. Here's what ...

The song of a Florida scrub-jay varies and has been described as a scratchy weep, a harsh scold, or a gutteral growl, according to All About Birds. The northern mockingbird is one of the 10 most ...

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 ...

It’s not even May, and the “Swallow-tailed Kite triangle” of Cape Cod is already popping off with early sightings. There were ...

It might seem strange, but those flocks of shorebirds and seabirds you see on Northeast Florida’s beaches actually prefer not ...

In North America, birds typically fly south for the winter ... wild turkeys and in Florida many types of herons. Altitudinal migrants: These are birds who change altitude, not location ...