Florida lawmakers have been dissing the scrub-jay for 26 years now. It’s time for Florida’s only uniquely native bird to play ...

Readers have a lot to say – about everything from scrub-jays and Florida’s SAT scores to Orlando hospitals and one, ...

For nearly a century, the mockingbird has reigned supreme as the state bird of Florida, surviving multiple coup attempts by ...

A bill to make the flamingo the Florida state bird and scrub-jay the state songbird could finally make that happen.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Republican Rep. Jim Mooney filed a bill last Friday that would designate the American flamingo as the ...

For the state's 2024 legislative session, Mooney filed a bill on Dec. 6, 2023 with the same purpose of replacing the ...

Mooney on Friday filed legislation ( HB 81) for the 2025 legislative session to make the American flamingo the official state ...

After several failed attempts over the years to change Florida's state bird, a legislator is taking another crack at ...

Florida lawmakers could again consider replacing the mockingbird as the state bird. Bills backing the flamingo and the scrub ...

that he not only wishes to designate the American flamingo as the official state bird but also to make the Florida scrub-jay the official state songbird. Newsweek has contacted Mooney and Florida ...

A bill has been filed to change Florida’s state bird from the mockingbird to the flamingo and make the scrub jay the state’s ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A group of flamingos is known as a flamboyance, and they’re looking to add some color to Florida’s state symbols. Florida House Representative Jim Mooney Jr., Key Largo ...