Florida lawmakers are debating whether to replace the northern mockingbird with the Florida scrub-jay as the official state bird. Of course they should. Everyone knows that. The scrub-jay is ...

Florida lawmakers are debating whether to replace the northern mockingbird with the Florida scrub-jay as the official state bird. Scott Maxwell [ Provided ] Of course they should. Everyone knows that.

From the towns and the cities. From the hills of Tallahassee, the people shout with glee, “The Florida scrub jay is the new state bird!” If only this were true. The Florida scrub jay ...

It is an odd bill in that it does not nominate just one bird as a replacement, but two. Both are worthy candidates for ...

A group of flamingos is known as a flamboyance, and they’re looking to add some color to Florida’s state symbols. Florida House Representative Jim Mooney Jr., Key Largo, filed a bill that ...

The Pacific Legal Foundation says the Endangered Species Act does not apply to species — such as the Florida bird — found in only one state. The modest Florida scrub-jay has now been enlisted ...

Four conservation groups are striving to maintain federal protections for the Florida scrub jay. Currently, the bird is protected under the Endangered Species Act. Earthjustice represents the four ...

The bill also would name the Florida scrub jay as the official state songbird. The bill is filed for the legislative session that will start March 4. Bills backing the flamingo and the scrub jay ...

Cole says they were worried they weren’t getting anywhere on a bill for this year, then learned about House Bill 81, to name the flamingo as the state bird and Florida scrub-jay as the state ...

Under Polsky’s bill, the young people would be surveyed about the mockingbird, the American osprey, the Florida scrub jay, the American ... be turned over to the House and Senate.