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Aerobics Instructor - Greater Flamingo

When I saw my photos of this day, this one reminded me my last aerobics class. The instructor giving the group motivation to do one more set.

This photograph is of some Greater Flamingos dabbling for food while another one watches.

 

By swimming like this and up-ending, they can reach deeper than they could by wading. This approach isn't very common—usually they're feeding in shallower water, and just wading with their heads down, but it's one of their standard feeding behaviors.

 

This was taken in Castro Marim which is a town in the Algarve, on the Portugal southern border with Spain.

-Phoenicopterus roseus

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Uploaded on April 22, 2023
Taken on February 4, 2023