As It Happens6:36Hurricane Idalia scattered flamingos across the U.S., from Florida to Ohio
Jerry Lorenz was beyond excited to feast his eyes upon a flamboyance of flamingos in Florida.
The bright pink birds may be an iconic symbol of the sunshine state, but the vast majority residing there these days are plastic lawn ornaments.
So when Lorenz, the state research director for Audubon Florida, peeped 16 of them through his binoculars at Florida’s Everglades National Park on Wednesday night, it was pretty special — even if they were driven there by a hurricane.
“They were basically hunted to extinction in Florida from the 1880s, early
