The northern mockingbird has done it again. Known for its ability to vocally mimic at least a dozen other species, the gray ...

It would also designate the Florida scrub-jay the official state songbird. Florida's bird has been the northern mockingbird ...

Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he would sign a bill into law to prohibit doing exactly what his administration had proposed last year: building golf courses, hotels and other destructive amenities on ...

SB 880, filed by State Sen. Ileana Garcia (R) Miami, has cleared a hurdle in the Senate. It is asking the state to designate ...

The birds are now forced to defend their reign again as lawmakers want to crown the Florida scrub jay the state songbird. "It's found here and nowhere else in the world. It is the only bird that ...

Two bills in Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a ...

She has previously sponsored bills to nominate the blue-and-gray Florida scrub jay, exclusively native to Florida, as the state bird. The mockingbird has a stable population in Florida and is ...

Proposed purchase would double the size of quarter-acre Kathleen Belleville Nature Preserve and benefit gopher tortoises and Florida Scrub-jays ...

as the official Florida state bird and the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) as the official Florida state songbird. The House bill has yet to leave its perch, but the Senate bill has flown ...

Florida lawmakers are considering bills to replace the mockingbird with the flamingo as the state bird and the scrub-jay as the state songbird. The flamingo is seen as a unique symbol of Florida ...