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What can I say?...a somewhat more elegant offering than my previous Flamingo shot. These creatures elicit many varied reactions, from comical, to hilarious, to stunning beauty. In researching them, the data is confusing, with no one being able to nail down their beginnings, and confusion from which family of birds they hail. Some say they are related to grebes, some to ibis. They are endangered in certain parts of the world for unknown reasons. There is no reliable explanation for why they stand on one foot.
So, I offer you this moment in a Flamingo life.......beauty.
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Caribbean Flamingos, Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
The brightest coloured in the flamingo family, these flamingos are easy to spot with three colours on their bills – grey at the base, pink in the middle and black at the tip. If threatened or if predators are spotted, they produce a goose-like chorus of honks. These birds are also known to spend quite a fair amount of their time preening.
Take a closer look at the flamingos and you will notice their unique beaks that act like sieves to trap food such as algae, diatoms and aquatic invertebrates.
Flamingo at Whipsnade Zoo
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Flamingoes at Whipsnade Zoo
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Flamingos or Flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the genus Phoenicopterus (from Greek: φοινικόπτερος, meaning "purple wing"), the only genus in the family Phoenicopteridae. There are four flamingo species in the Americas and two species in the Old World.
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The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread of all flamingo species.
STATUS: The greater flamingo is classified as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Many of the flocks include hundreds of thousands of birds.
HABITAT: The range of the greater flamingo includes Africa, southwest Europe, the Middle East, southwest Asia, India and Sri Lanka. Some of the flocks in the northern parts of their range migrate south in the winter. They live near shallow water, either fresh or salty lakes or coastal lagoons and river estuaries. They are tolerant of very salty water.
DIET: Flamingos are filter feeders, eating a wide variety of small arthropods like shrimp and copepods, worms, small mollusks and insect larvae. The head, with its unique bent beak, is lowered into the water and the tongue is used rapidly pump water and mud in and out of the mouth. As the water leaves the beak, small projections, called lamellae, catch the food which is then swallowed. The coloration of the flamingo results from carotenoid pigments found in their food. In the zoo, flamingos eat a special flamingo food containing canthaxanthin to maintain their color.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Greater flamingos have very long legs and necks, so they can be up to five feet tall. They weigh 9-10 lbs and have a 5 ½ foot wingspan. Their bodies are light pink with red wing coverts and black fight feathers. Greater flamingos can be distinguished from other flamingos by the bright “bubblegum” pink on their beaks. Both sexes are similar, with the males being slightly larger. Flamingos are very noisy birds with a goose-like honk both on the ground and when flying.
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