Two identical bills (SB 150, HB 11) would crown the American flamingo as Florida’s official state bird and the Florida scrub-jay as its official state songbird. That would knock the northern ...

Florida lawmakers will get a chance in 2026 to ditch the common mockingbird in favor of the America flamingo as the state bird.

After a quiet summer, bird flu is on the move again, and experts say it poses an escalating threat. While the virus doesn’t appear capable of spreading from human to human, it has killed people ...

Six mice in Grant County have recently tested positive for avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, according to a ...