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.

DAVIE (CBSMiami) – Congratulations are in order for the birth of the first American flamingo at Flamingo Gardens Wildlife Sanctuary in Davie. The chick started to hatch on July 31 and fully emerged on ...

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 ...

"Peaches" the flamingo wades in shallow water with a visible blue band and satellite tracker on the bird's legs. Days after Hurricane Idalia blew through Florida in August, people began sighting ...

On Monday, the zoo's Bird House staff made the gruesome discovery and spotted the fox in the outdoor flamingo enclosure before it escaped. Three additional flamingos were injured and treated by ...

The flamingo chick was hatched Aug. 1 at Flamingo Gardens Wildlife Sanctuary and weighed 88 grams. Three eggs were collected from the flamingo flock and were artificially incubated. This was the first ...

Move over mockingbird. Here comes the flamingo. Rep. Linda Chaney, R-St. Pete Beach and Rep. Jim Mooney, R-Islamorada, filed a bill (HB 753) this week that would designate the American flamingo as the ...

San DiegoSan Diego — Drawing the eye with their reddish-pink and white feathers, San Diego Zoo’s flamboyant American flamingos serve as its unofficial ambassadors. Now the water-loving birds have ...

The American Flamingo has been such an iconic image that has been used to represent Florida for so long — from the Greetings From Florida postcards of the last century to the opening credits of "Miami ...

The birth of an American flamingo at Flamingo Gardens in Davie – the sanctuary’s first birth ever from its own flock – has been keeping Wildlife Curator Laura Wyatt busy. Flamingos imprint on the ...

A Denver Zoo post on Facebook celebrating Pride that mentioned the break-up of two male flamingos had fans demanding answers. Screengrab from Facebook A Denver Zoo post on Facebook celebrating Pride ...