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Florida lawmakers could consider another push to make the flamingo the state bird
Islamorada, filed a proposal that would lead to the flamingo replacing the mockingbird, which has been the state’s bird since ...
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Florida’s Ice Age original: Scrub-Jay is the real state bird | Opinion
The Florida Scrub-Jay, Florida’s only unique bird species ... burying 6,500-8,000 acorns a year - coaxing life from ...
Another showdown over Florida state bird? Legislation filed to elevate flamingo, scrub-jay
Mooney on Friday filed legislation ( HB 81) for the 2025 legislative session to make the American flamingo the official state ...
"The most unique I've ever seen": JD state park's wetlands among rarest in the world
The wetlands "have more species of amphibian than the Everglades do. ... When these wetlands decline, the whole ecosystem declines.” ...
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SAVING THE BARTRAM'S SCRUB-HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY
About an inch long, the Bartram's scrub-hairstreak butterfly is gray, which helps it blend in with its pine rockland surroundings in South Florida and on Big Pine Key in the Florida Keys. But it's far ...
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Lawsuit Challenges Federal Failure to Protect Rare Wildlife From South Florida Development
MIAMI— Conservation groups sued the National Park Service today for failing to protect the endangered Florida bonneted bat, Miami tiger beetle, Bartram’s scrub-hairstreak, endangered plants and ...