A fox breached an outdoor bird habitat this week at the Smithsonian National Zoo and killed 25 flamingos, officials said. The incident at the Washington, D.C., zoo is a “devastating loss," officials ...

The Houston Zoo's new Birds of the World exhibit will open to guests on Aug. 30. The $13.5 million exhibit will house approximately 15 bird species from around the world. A flamboyant scene unfolded ...

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 ...

Houston Zoo anticipated 70 staffers, volunteers and board members would show up early Tuesday morning to help herd 54 Chilean flamingos into their new habitat. Instead, roughly 200 conservation ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Even for an experienced birder like Katey Buster, whose home ornithology collection boasts 600 specimens from all 48 lower states, it was the sight of a lifetime. That of a classically ...

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Will the mockingbird be dethroned after nearly 100 years as Florida's state bird? Some lawmakers want this pink replacement.

Flamingos feed and preen in Estero Bay Preserve State Park in Florida in September. Andrew West The News-Press / USA TODAY NETWORK Ask anyone about Florida’s state bird, and they’ll likely guess it’s ...

Fellow Floridians, we owe the American flamingo a lot. Let us count the ways. First, and most obviously, we have been using it as our pink mascot for decades. We slap it onto just about everything to ...