Conjuring images of the desert, these yuccas — sometimes called Adam’s needle — aren’t damaged by cold, poking through with ...

TALLAHASSEE – For nearly a century, the mockingbird has reigned supreme as the state bird of Florida, surviving multiple coup attempts by the Florida Legislature. Once again, a lawmaker this ...

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 ...

Two conservationists with the Flamingo Working Group write that the American flamingo — a long lost Florida native that is ...

It is an odd bill in that it does not nominate just one bird as a replacement, but two. Both are worthy candidates for ...

On the heels of an actual winter in Central Florida, it appears spring has sprung. Good fishing should follow. And let's ...

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 pass. If ...

To Kill a Mockingbird will be touring the nation later this year. Directed by Bartlett Sher ( The King and I ), Aaron ...

Closing price of Mockingbird Estate, a 1.5-acre property with 700-foot-long driveway, checks in at half the original ask.

Florida adopted the mockingbird as its state bird in 1927. Former state Rep. Howard Futch of Indialantic, who died in 2003, attempted to replace it with the Florida scrub-jay in 1998, but got his ...