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Flamingos are gregarious wading birds, usually 3 to 5 feet in height, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
Photo taken at the Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park.
I used Topaz Glow to give it a subtle painterly look.
Two sleeping Flamingos in the spring sun!
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I had an opportunity last week to visit the renowned San Diego Zoo in California. I lugged two cameras across half a continent to get there with the hope of capturing some interesting subjects. Here is the first of them, a pink flamingo.
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Two pink flamingos relaxing at the Bronx Zoo. Flamingo feathers obtain their wonderful rosy pink color from pigments in the organisms they eat. The flamingos’ feathers, legs, and face are colored by their diet, which is rich in alpha and beta carotenoid pigments.
Carotenoids in crustaceans such as those in the flamingo diet are frequently linked to protein molecules, and may be blue or green. After being digested, the carotenoid pigments dissolve in fats and are deposited in the growing feathers, becoming orange or pink.
These Andean Flamingoes are such photogenic birds. I still have a number of photos to post from a trip to WWT Slimbridge this week, but will intersperse them with shots of other birds taken there.
A wild flamingo at Fort Myers Beach, Florida
(The full image looks sharper when not uploaded for some reason.)
The Zoo's breeding program for Caribbean Flamingos is so successful that they don't have room for all of them at the Flamingo Lagoon near the entrance, especially with all the local ducks (mostly Mallards.) So they had to move some of them down to the overflow lagoon, which is way down by the Pandas. That is where I made this image.
Turns out this was a much better place to shoot than up at the regular Flamingo Lagoon, because there was shade under this tree, which is what makes all the colors, whereas there is none up at the top. It also works to shoot in the golden hour, near sunset, but I'm not usually at the Zoo at that time. It's also better to shoot down here, because it's easier to get one at a time.
His neck is in the shape of the sign for infinity, which is appropriate, because it goes on and on forever. :)
A beautiful flamingo taken at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve, Fakenham. We had a wonderful day there with out good friends Judy and Mervyn.
Pensthorpe Natural Park is located in Pensthorpe, Norfolk, England and is approximately one mile from Fakenham and close to the A1067 road. The park covers 700 acres (280 ha). The River Wensum, which runs through the site, is a designated Special Area of Conservation (SAC).
Pensthorpe Conservation Trust (PCT) was formed in January 2003. It is a charitable trust that works closely with Pensthorpe Natural Park to showcase the importance of species and habitat conservation. The PCT works with partner organisations in national conservation programmes to conserve wetland and farmland bird species. These partnerships include Operation Turtle Dove, The Great Crane Project and re-introduction projects for red squirrels and corncrakes.
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