The flamingo is an icon of Florida, but there's more to the flashy bird than bold pink feathers and lanky legs. Here are five facts you maybe didn't know about flamingos: 1) Flamingos weren't ...
The Florida Legislature has once again pulled out its binoculars and is scanning the skies for a new state bird. With such an impressive array of avian life, our current state bird, the northern ...
National Park Service Data Manager and Ecologist Judd Patterson photographed this flock of flamingos in Lake Ingram in 2012, a sighting that helped launch a study that eventually concluded flamingos ...
Because of their long legs, bent necks, and distinct pink colouration, flamingos tend to resemble living sculptures right out of nature paintings. Of course, who can forget the elegant and exotic ...
When you land at the Tampa International Airport, you can’t miss the 21-foot flamingo. At first, I rolled my eyes; after all, flamingos are always in our face here in Florida. But recently I’ve ...
New research found that flamingos form cliques based on their personality. More submissive birds hung out with each other whereas louder, outgoing birds had their own groups. Understanding flamingo ...
When Brent Daggett heard that a group of five American flamingos that had made an earlier appearance in Port Washington had made its way to central Wisconsin, he jumped in his car and made the three ...
Hurricane Idalia is being credited with delivering a flamingo-palooza to the Eastern United States this week. The iconic, pink plumaged birds first started showing up all over Florida, on both coasts ...
Residents flocked to the public beach of Caesar Creek State Park for a rare glimpse of wild American Flamingos last Friday Residents flocked to the public beach of Caesar Creek State Park for a rare ...
Nobody knows for sure why a pair of flamingos have settled in the marsh by Coronado Cays, but they're sure brightening up the joint. Some amateur ornithologists have speculated that the hot-pink pals ...
Flamingos feed and preen in Estero Bay Preserve State Park in Florida in September. Andrew West The News-Press / USA TODAY NETWORK Ask anyone about Florida’s state bird, and they’ll likely guess it’s ...