"[This] definitely gives us more flexibility in what can be done." Officials reach controversial decision in effort to save ...

We traveled the 90-mile or so road from Miami, along pine forests, cypress swamps, sawgrass marshes, and ponds to this final ...

Faster than a speeding bullet. It may seem that way when birds flit from one point to another when curious humans likely just ...

Hilary Flower, a professor and Everglades researcher ... and the flamingo will become Florida's state bird. Do you have a story Newsweek should be covering? Do you have any questions about ...

Florida state Representative James Vernon ... that all but wiped out the American flamingo population in the Everglades. The birds came back from the brink, though." Former National Rifle ...

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 ...

they should advocate for wetlands conservation and Everglades restoration. If they are a fan of the Florida Scrub-Jay, they should care about protecting the rare scrub habitat this endemic bird ...

To learn more, visit the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center's website. Named after John D. Pennekamp, a former newspaper editor for the Miami Herald and noted Everglades conservationist ...

This bill would help save two birds with one stone. It would declare the Florida scrub-jay our state ... Hilary Flower is an Everglades researcher, an Eckerd College professor and a member of ...

Only the Florida caracara is listed under the federal Endangered Species Act as threatened, with its favored prairie land shrinking because of development and Everglades restoration projects that ...