During the 2017-18 fiscal year, the sales tax generated more than $3.6 million in funding for the zoo. As of May 3, zoo tax revenues were more than $8.4 million for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

Overhead view of Tropical Panorama at Biscayne Boulevard and 185th Street, showing flamingo pool, with other attractions in the background. The theme park was open in the 1950s. Miami Herald File ...

After initial observations with the live birds, the team built a 3-D model of a flamingo head and used it to more precisely explore the birds’ biomechanics. Flamingos, they found, frequently and ...

A northern mockingbird, Florida’s state bird, overlooks sand pine scrubs in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. For the fourth consecutive year ...

Except for occasional sightings in southern Florida, the only stable flamingo populations were captive, like those at Hialeah’s race track, now called Hialeah Park Casino.

Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, became an unexpected fixture of New York City life after escaping from the Central Park Zoo in February 2023.

Flamingo, seal die of bird flu at Lincoln Park Zoo The Chilean flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and died Jan. 8. The 7-year-old harbor seal, named Slater, died the next day.

Bird flu is being cited as the cause of the recent deaths of a Chilean flamingo and harbor seal at Lincoln Park Zoo, the zoo announced. The flamingo, named Teal, hatched last fall and “was just ...

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo announced the death of a Harbor Seal and a Chilean Flamingo as a result of the Avian Influenza, a highly pathogenic disease in free-ranging waterfowls.

Officials at Lincoln Park Zoo confirmed Wednesday that a harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo each died of highly pathogenic avian flu earlier this month. In a statement, zoo officials said the sourc… ...

Updated: Jan 16, 2025 / 08:15 AM CST CHICAGO (WGN) — A harbor seal and a Chilean flamingo at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo died from avian influenza last week, zoo officials confirmed Wednesday.

The flamingo died January 8 and the seal died January 9, the Lincoln Park Zoo said. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch ...