MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Monday, April 26, is International Flamingo Day, and if there’s anything more quintessentially South Florida than coconut trees and sunshine, it’s the American Flamingo.

DAVIE (CBSMiami) – Congratulations are in order for the birth of the first American flamingo at Flamingo Gardens Wildlife Sanctuary in Davie. The chick started to hatch on July 31 and fully emerged on ...

WERE ALL OVER FLORIDA. BUT NOW IT’S NOT COMMON TO SPOT A WILD AMERICAN FLAMINGO IN OUR AREA. YEAH, THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS ARE STOKING A REBOUND FOR THE ICONIC PINK BIRD. AND AS SCOTT HEIDLER REPORTS ...

Will the mockingbird finally get replaced as Florida's official state bird? A bill to raise up the leggy pink flamingo soared past the House.

Florida’s House voted late Wednesday to establish the American flamingo as the new state bird, a step toward knocking the mockingbird off its perch after nearly a century. It wasn’t immediately clear ...

It’s one of the most celebrated visitors to hit The Hamptons in years. An American flamingo in all its pink glory was seen this week in the posh waters of East Hampton’s Georgica Pond — the first time ...

"Peaches" the flamingo wades in shallow water with a visible blue band and satellite tracker on the bird's legs. Days after Hurricane Idalia blew through Florida in August, people began sighting ...

Move over mockingbird. Here comes the flamingo. Rep. Linda Chaney, R-St. Pete Beach and Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, filed a bill (HB 753) this week that would designate the American flamingo as the ...

The flamingo chick was hatched Aug. 1 at Flamingo Gardens Wildlife Sanctuary and weighed 88 grams. Three eggs were collected from the flamingo flock and were artificially incubated. This was the first ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Even for an experienced birder like Katey Buster, whose home ornithology collection boasts 600 specimens from all 48 lower states, it was the sight of a lifetime. That of a classically ...