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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 are native to Florida and should have protected status. | Judd Patterson, National Park Service
February 14, 2024

The flamingo may finally take its place as Florida’s state bird

Two bills in the Legislature would dethrone the noisy and occasionally combative mockingbird as the reigning state bird after nearly…

By Jenny Staletovich - WLRN