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 ...

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

The Florida scrub jay could be one step closer to becoming the official state songbird now that the leading opponent of the ...

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 with the flamingo as the state bird. The scrub jay would ...

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

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

Republican Representative Jim Mooney filed House Bill 81 on Jan. 3 proposing to make the American flamingo the state bird, ...

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Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas also claim the mockingbird as state bird. In fact, the anti-mockingbirders point out, both the scrub jay and flamingo are native Floridians.