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 ...

The old adage of “Lucky 7’s” rings true for the Naples Zoo, as they have announced its latest addition of seven new American ...

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 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 flamingo was spotted on Cape Cod, a very rare and possibly unprecedented bird sighting for Massachusetts. If the bird is found to be wild, it would be the first American flamingo ever confirmed to ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...