The Florida grasshopper sparrow, one of the most endangered birds in North America, is showing encouraging signs after more than a decade of captive breeding and carefully managed releases into the ...

Federal wildlife officials are removing protections for a Florida bird no longer considered threatened while agreeing to ...

Feb. 13 Another nameIt appears, with the ongoing total mismanagement of our tax dollars by the state government of Florida, ...

Will the mockingbird finally get replaced as Florida's official state bird? A bill to raise up the leggy pink flamingo soared ...

Lawmakers are trying again to designate the flamingo as the state bird and the Florida scrub jay as the state song bird.

While America's birds remain under siege, what Florida birds are at risk of endangerment? Here are the four Florida birds scientists are trying to protect. What bird is only found in Florida? The ...

Bird flu has killed 10 bottlenose dolphins in Florida's Indian River Lagoon, making it a global hotspot for the virus in ...

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...

Florida’s House voted late Wednesday to establish the American flamingo as the new state bird, a step toward knocking the ...

Today, the Florida House is set to hear a measure that would change one of the state’s official symbols, swapping Florida’s state bird from the mockingbird to the American flamingo. This raises a ...

John James Audubon, the pioneer field biologist and great bird artist of his time, who created the incomparable anthology "Birds Of America", is seen in this January 1951 photo, taken from an 1851 ...