PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Palm Beach County man is accused of torturing a bird that is listed on Florida’s threatened species list, according to an arrest affidavit.

The flamingo is an icon of Florida, but there's more to the flashy bird than bold pink feathers and lanky legs. ... PHOTOS:: Wading birds of Florida 3.) There are six species of flamingos.

Florida’s booming tourist industry has also thrown its hat in the ring. They’ve used these pretty pink birds to promote travel to Florida for over a century — on postcards, travel posters ...

South Florida’s self-described “Feather Man” on Tuesday was sentenced to house arrest for selling feathers plucked from protected birds. Clemente DiMuro, Jr., 56, of Miami pleaded… ...

A man from Palm Beach, Florida, United States has been accused of abusing a bird that comes under one of the threatened species of the state. The man has been arrested and taken to the Palm Beach ...

Guy Bradley’s mission to protect Florida’s wading birds put him in the crosshairs of poachers—and left a legacy that endures in today’s conservation efforts. In 1905, the sprawling estuaries of South ...

The latter two species occasionally migrate to Florida over the winter season. As for the ruby-throated hummingbird, it is the only breeding hummingbird in Florida and resides in the state for ...

Two bills in the Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a more colorful representative.

Florida currently defines the bird as the less serious status of a “species of special concern. ...

This is the description of the Florida Scrub-Jay, a species that deserves to be our state bird. The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only bird species endemic to Florida, which means it lives its entire ...

New threat to birds posed by invasive pythons in Florida Date: April 5 ... ornithologist at the Smithsonian's Feather Identification Lab in the National Museum of Natural History and lead author ...

Birds Of A Feather Aren't Necessarily ... a biologist who studies bird evolution at the University of Florida and contributed to the ... Today's bird species all look and sound very different ...