What bird do you think best represents Florida? There's the osprey, the brown pelican, the snowy egret. We are spoiled for ...

By Denise Sansosti The National Audubon Society (NAS) has a long history of helping Florida wildlife. By 1900, more than 5 ...

Once again, Florida lawmakers are debating whether to replace the northern mockingbird with the Florida scrub-jay as the official state bird. Of course they should. Everyone knows that. The scrub-jay ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After several failed attempts over the years to change Florida’s state bird, a legislator is taking another crack at unseating the mockingbird. State Rep. Jim Mooney (R-Islamorada ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A bill filed in the Florida Senate last week aims to change the state bird from the mockingbird to the Florida scrub-jay. Sen. Tina Polsky (D-Boca Raton) filed “Designation of the ...

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 ...

Florida's waterways are more than just tourist attractions – they constitute living areas that host more than 500 different bird species, including some of nature's most beautiful performers. These ...

We are blessed here in Northeast Florida with an abundance of wildlife associated with the St. Johns River, and they are not all fish, shrimp and crabs either. We also have well over 200 species of ...