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Flamingo set to strut in as Florida's state bird, Senate bill proposes
When you think of Florida's state bird, what do you think of? The Florida Senate has introduced Senate Bill 880, which ...
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Florida May Drop Mockingbird For Flamingo And Scrub-Jay Duo
Florida lawmakers are once again considering replacing the state’s longtime bird, the northern mockingbird, with two uniquely Floridian species.
Bye bye mockingbird? Florida might replace state bird after nearly 100 years
Two bills in the Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a ...
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Bill to make flamingo, scrub-jay Florida’s state birds flies through penultimate Senate stop
Florida State University sophomore Olyvia Collins, a member of the student “Scrub Club” group that in 2022 convinced Seminole ...
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Seeing pink: Flamingo closer to becoming Florida’s state bird
From the opening credits of Miami Vice, to the lottery logo, to souvenirs of all sorts, the American flamingo is a symbol of Florida. But it’s not our state bird: instead, it’s the Northern ...
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A Senate panel passes a bill honoring both the flamingo and the Florida Scrub-Jay as state symbols
Under the bill, which passed unanimously, the flamingo would be the state bird and the Florida Scrub-Jay would be the state ...
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Bye bye mockingbird? Florida might replace state bird after nearly 100 years
Ileana Garcia, R-Miami-Dade, and HB 81 from Reps Jim Mooney, R-Islamorda and Chip LaMarca, R-Lighthouse Point, would designate the pink-feathered American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber ...