The northern mockingbird is one of the 10 most common birds seen in Florida yards. The mockingbird, while common to other states, is a year-round Florida resident and can be seen all over the state.

In most areas intermediate brownish birds compose less than 10 percent of the population; but in Florida, gray, rufous, and brownish birds are evidently about equally common. The rufous morph ...

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