A 21-foot, floor-to-ceiling sculpture of a pink flamingo will be installed in a Florida airport. "Home," by artist Matthew Mazzotta, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a sculpture of the iconic Florida ...

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 ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — When Keith Ramos heard a small flock of American flamingos had landed last fall at the nature preserve he oversees off Florida’s Atlantic coast, he rushed to get a ...

Once wiped out by hunters and thought to be gone for good, Florida’s iconic flamingos are making a comeback, carried home by hurricane winds and a slow but steady healing of the Everglades.

Accepting the past can be difficult, especially when it involves murder and mobsters. When the Flamingo turned 50 in 1996, there was no celebration, no fanfare to mark the occasion, no public ...

Florida state Representative James Vernon "Jim" Mooney has filed a motion to replace the current state bird, the mockingbird, with the American flamingo. Mooney, a Republican who represents Islamorada ...