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Florida’s Ice Age original: Scrub jay is the real state bird | Opinion
From the towns and the cities. From the hills of Tallahassee, the people shout with glee, “The Florida scrub jay is the new state bird!” If only this were true. The Florida scrub jay ...
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Lawmaker tries again to make the flamingo Florida’s state bird
Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, on Friday filed a proposal (HB 81) that would lead to the flamingo replacing the mockingbird, which has been the state’s bird since 1927. (Jim Rassol/South Florida Sun ...
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Florida Might Be Getting a New State Bird
The mockingbird has been Florida ... bird they wanted to represent the state. The survey would include the northern mockingbird, American osprey, Florida scrub jay, American flamingo and American ...
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Florida lawmakers could consider another push to make the flamingo the state bird
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 ...