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’ve ...
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 flamingos ...
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 ...
Will the mockingbird be dethroned after nearly 100 years as Florida's state bird? Some lawmakers want this pink replacement.
LEOMINSTER – The city is certainly proud of one of its claims to fame, the pink flamingo lawn ornament, and has 40 flamingo crosswalk paintings downtown to prove it. The wading bird will be celebrated ...
The notorious No. 492, an African flamingo who escaped from a Kansas zoo in 2005, was spotted on Texas’ Coastal Bend earlier this year,Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials said. No. 492 was ...
This story appears in the February 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Bob enjoys breakfasts of caviar, dips in his own saltwater pool, and biweekly foot massages on the beach. A charmed life, ...
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’ve ...