Merry, an American flamingo, was sent to the Joan Kirkpatrick Animal Hospital in June for swelling in her ankle Merry the flamingo is on the mend! Nearly four months after the American flamingo was ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Monday, April 26, is International Flamingo Day, and if there’s anything more quintessentially South Florida than coconut trees and sunshine, it’s the American Flamingo.

The Denver Zoo shared on social media that Chilean flamingo Freddie Mercury is now spending time with a 14-year-old female American flamingo named Iommi Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She ...

Florida’s House voted late Wednesday to establish the American flamingo as the new state bird, a step toward knocking the mockingbird off its perch after nearly a century. It wasn’t immediately clear ...

Some Florida lawmakers are pushing to make the American Flamingo the official state bird. The northern mockingbird has been Florida’s state bird for nearly a century, but a new proposal just cleared a ...

An American flamingo rescued in Limón in June 2025 is still recovering under specialized care after arriving in critical condition, and the latest update brings mixed news. The bird has made what ...

It’s one of the most celebrated visitors to hit The Hamptons in years. An American flamingo in all its pink glory was seen this week in the posh waters of East Hampton’s Georgica Pond — the first time ...

An unusual visitor made an appearance in Moín on Saturday: an American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) was spotted on the beach, later reappearing at the mouth of the Estero Negro. This bird inhabits ...

On the final day of summer, five flamingos took a dip in Lake Michigan at South Beach Park in Port Washington. Wait, did we say, flamingos? Yes, there were wild flamingos in Wisconsin. But how did the ...

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 ...