March 19, 2026 – A proposal to designate the American flamingo as Florida’s state bird failed in the Legislature after losing momentum in the Senate. The bill cleared its first committee unanimously but was never taken up by key committees or brought to a full floor vote. The measure would have replaced the mockingbird, Florida’s state bird since 1927 and shared with four other states, and also named the Florida scrub-jay as the state songbird.
