Andrew West The News-Press / USA TODAY NETWORK Ask anyone about Florida’s state bird, and they’ll likely guess it’s the flamingo. The Sunshine State and the skinny-legged, pink-plumaged bird ...

Lazaro Aleman  [email protected] Florida lawmakers may once again try to make the flamingo the state bird, in lieu of the current mockingbird. House Bill 81, which Republican ...

Teal the Chilean flamingo. The statement explained that it had not yet been confirmed how either of the two animals had been exposed to bird flu. However, "it is near certain the cause is from ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo — a seal and a flamingo — died of bird flu last week, the zoo announced Wednesday. The Chilean flamingo, Teal, died Wednesday, Jan. 8.

Recently a Republican lawmaker, Jim Mooney, filed House Bill 81 to make the American flamingo the official state bird. For all of its virtues, the Northern mockingbird (the state bird of four ...