When you land at the Tampa International Airport, you can’t miss the 21-foot flamingo. At first, I rolled my eyes; after all, flamingos are always in our face here in Florida. But recently I ...

Images of the bird at a Cape Cod beach were circulating on social media over the weekend, and were shared with NBC Boston Tuesday. The bird can be seen wading in the water off shore. Some people ...

The Florida Senate has introduced Senate Bill 880, which proposes a shake-up in the state's bird designations. The bill seeks to crown the American flamingo as the official state bird, dethroning ...

Florida lawmakers are considering bills to replace the mockingbird with the flamingo as the state bird and the scrub-jay as the state songbird. The flamingo is seen as a unique symbol of Florida ...

Greater flamingos are likely to be the only tall, pink bird in any given locale ... mud and water to access the tasty morsels within. A flamingo's beak has a filterlike structure to remove ...

From the opening credits of Miami Vice, to the lottery logo, to souvenirs of all sorts, the American flamingo is a symbol of Florida. But it’s not our state bird: instead, it’s the Northern ...

Other landlocked states also witnessed rare sightings of the bright pink wading bird after Hurricane Idalia Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...