Low Key

trying a touch of the swan lake

It remains a strange sight in the middle of winter: a group of flamingos to ankle height (yes, the ankles are at the height of the knees) in the cold water of the Grevelingenmeer. Tropical birds that strangely survive our winters in the Grevelingenmeer for Battenoord, a neighborhood on Goeree-Overflakkee near the villages Herkingen and Nieuwe-Tonge.

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This is a challenge I wanted to do for a long time. Remove a zoo capture and put into black background, so for a first it came out okay, could have tweaked on it a lot longer but didnt want to completely miss out on Sliders Sunday.

I made this image at Étang du Pourra,Fos-sur-Mer-France

Flamingos at Kalloni wetlands.

greater flamingos

fenicotteri rosa

phoenicopterus roseus

sunset, taken from fixed hide, Firenze Peretola's lake

tramonto, scattata da capanno fisso, lago di Firenze peretola

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Flamingo

Flamingos

Greater Flamingos Whipsnade 13-04-2015 5D2A5155

Phoenicopterus rube, is a large species of flamingo closely related to the greater flamingo and Chilean flamingo. It is the only flamingo that naturally inhabits North America.

Very variable internet access in Namibia but so many things to see that finding time to post is also a challenge. Here beautiful greater flamingos in Walvis Bay - will post more on return. Now going miles away from anywhere.

Taken at Wildlife Safari

The American Flamingo is also called the Caribbean Flamingo, the largest amount of them are found around the Caribbean. A beautiful and graceful creature that has been depicted in many forms, pictorially and statuary. Picture taken at the Florida Zoo.

A pretty looking group of Greater Flamingos at ZooTampa at Lowry Park in Tampa, Florida.

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Zoo Krefeld

Flamingo preening.

Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only bird family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas (including the Caribbean), and two species native to Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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Natural Wonder

With their pink and crimson plumage, long legs and necks, and strongly hooked bills, flamingos cannot be mistaken for any other type of bird. These beauties have long fascinated people. An accurate cave painting of a flamingo, found in the south of Spain, dates back to 5,000 B.C.

The flamingo’s pink or reddish color comes from the rich sources of carotenoid pigments in the algae and small crustaceans the birds eat. Caribbean flamingos, a subspecies of greater flamingo, are the brightest, showing their true colors of red, pink, or orange on their legs, bills, and faces.

Flamingos live in lagoons or large, shallow lakes. These bodies of water may be quite salty or caustic, too much so for most other animals. In some lakes, their only animal “neighbors” are algae, diatoms, and small crustaceans. That works in the flamingo’s favor, as the birds dine on these small creatures!

Chilean, Andean, and puna flamingos are found in South America; greater and lesser flamingos live in Africa, with greaters also found in the Middle East; the Caribbean subspecies is native to Mexico, the Caribbean, and the northernmost tip of South America.

-San Diego Zoo

¿Flamenco o pulpo?

Zoo de Barcelona

Hello beautiful bird!

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Into the new weekend - Greater Flamingos - Wild - at Parc Ornithologique Pont de Gau - Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer.

Better seen Large - Press L

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Flamingos at Lake Nakuru Kenya on my first trip to Kenya in 2008

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Flamingo ~ Menagerie Zoo ~ Jardin Des Plantes ~ Saturday May 4th 2019.

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So in the time I had to kill between waiting for the train back to London yesterday, I decided to go to the Menagerie De Zoo ~ Jardin Des Plants, in the centre of Paris as ya do & I was rewarded by being able to capture this Flamingo.....it was a good day.:)

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A build I pieced together and watched grow into what it is. Salty Blue, what do you have in store for us today?

One thing I love about the long-necked wading birds here in Florida is the contortions they get into while grooming. And the vivid colors don't hurt .... it's hard to believe anything in nature can be that brilliant a pinky-orange !

Parco Ornitologico di Pont de Gau - Camargue