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 official songbird. A similar bill was filed last year, but did not ...
GET IT ON G E T I T O N As the saying goes, birds of a feather, flock together. The Flamingos did just that during Hurricane Idalia in 2023 when they hitched a ride on the tails of Category 4 ...
Florida state Representative James Vernon "Jim" Mooney has filed a motion to replace the current state bird, the mockingbird, with the American flamingo. Mooney, a Republican who represents ...
State Rep. Jim Mooney (R-Islamorada) filed a bill last week aiming to make the American flamingo Florida’s official state bird and the native Florida scrub-jay the official state songbird.