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Bye bye mockingbird? Florida might replace state bird after nearly 100 years
Two bills in the Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a ...
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Flamingo set to strut in as Florida's state bird, Senate bill proposes
When you think of Florida's state bird, what do you think of? The Florida Senate has introduced Senate Bill 880, which ...
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Bill to make flamingo, scrub-jay Florida’s state birds flies through penultimate Senate stop
Florida State University sophomore Olyvia Collins, a member of the student “Scrub Club” group that in 2022 convinced Seminole ...
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on MSN15d
State of the Birds report indicates about one-third of U.S. bird species at increased risk
The eastern towhee is among species considered at a tipping point by the 2025 "State of the Birds" report. The latest update to a periodic assessment of U.S. birds has once again sent out a distress ...
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A Senate panel passes a bill honoring both the flamingo and the Florida Scrub-Jay as state symbols
Under the bill, which passed unanimously, the flamingo would be the state bird and the Florida Scrub-Jay would be the state ...
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GOP lawmakers question Gov. Shapiro’s $25M cut to Pa. bird flu fund
The Shapiro administration says Pennsylvania has enough in reserves to address avian influenza, but Republican lawmakers aren ...
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A Senate panel passes a bill honoring both the flamingo and the Florida Scrub-Jay as state symbols
Members of the Wildlife Conservation Club at Seminole High School urged a Senate committee recently to make the Florida Scrub-Jay the state bird. And the committee’s vote was unanimous.