Lawmakers are trying again to designate the flamingo as the state bird and the Florida scrub jay as the state song bird.

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

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

Those engineering decisions worsened Katrina’s destruction. They allowed saltwater into freshwater ecosystems around the city, poisoning many of the trees. And so the city was exposed to future ...

Our ancestors didn't have Doppler radar or smartphone alerts buzzing with weather warnings. Yet somehow they survived ...

The farthest north the waved albatross had been seen was Costa Rica, so what was it doing off the coast of California?

It may be the most enduring love story in the shorebird world, two birds coming together from different parts of the ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm, Louisiana has completed its largest coastal restoration project in state history.

And there are plenty of other spots to check out in between aquatic excursions. Wickie’s Lighthouse Restaurant is a prime ...

One legislator, Hope Florida critic Alex Andrade, held out for the pelican in the 112-1 anti-mockingbird vote. Lawmakers are ...

We are in a place with miles and miles of beaches. But which Lee County beaches really stand out compared to others? Take our ...

In one of North America’s great migrations, snow geese and ducks descend on the south Louisiana delta by the hundreds of ...