"Had we not put them in that bathroom, they all probably would have died."
After nearly a half-century promoting animals as Zoo Miami’s spokesperson, Ron Magill says he’s raring for a fight on behalf of a bird that helped make him famous: the Florida flamingo.
“The flamingo needs to be the state bird of Florida,” he told the Miami Herald on Tuesday after accepting a “Ron Magill Day” proclamation from the Miami-Dade Commission in honor of his retirement as the county-owned zoo’s communications director. “This is an absolute must.”
Magill, 66, has been working at Zoo Miami since it was located on Key Biscayne, joining the county payroll in 1979. For decades, he has enjoyed fame from his frequent television appearances promoting the zoo, almost always with at least one animal sidekick in tow.
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