![]() ![]() Both sexes are alike but the male is slightly larger.Īndean Flamingo: The Andean Flamingo has a pale pink plumage with darker pink upperparts, neck, breast, wing coverts, and black primary flight feathers. Captive Flamingos are fed with a special diet and beta-carotene or canthaxanthin additives may be added to their food to maintain their pink feathers.Īmerican Flamingo: The large American Flamingo has a deep pink plumage, primary and secondary flight feathers are black and wing coverts are red, a pink and white beak with a restrictive black tip, and pink legs and webbed feet. ![]() Why are Flamingos Pink and what do they eat?įlamingos are actually born with grey feathers but later they gain a pink plumage which is due to their natural diet of shrimp and algae which contain pigments called carotenoids. A flamingo will lay a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound. They feed on Algae, diatoms, crustaceans, shrimp, and insects. Flamingos feed by putting their large beak upside down in the water and use their tongue and beak to suck in and filter food from the mud and water. They also stamp their feet to stir up food from the muddy waters. Both of these species have yellow on their beaks.įlamingos can often be seen standing on one leg in the water which may be a way for them to conserve body heat. The Andean Flamingo and the James's Flamingo are closely related and are often placed in the genus Phoenicoparrus instead of Phoenicopterus. The American Flamingo is also large but generally does not have such a pale plumage as the Greater Flamingo. The Greater Flamingo is the largest species and has a long curved neck and restrictive black tip on the beak. The Andean Flamingo and James's Flamingo both have yellow beaks with black tips but the James's Flamingo has bright red skin between the eye and the beak and the Andean Flamingo has a distinctive black triangle patch on its plumage. The Lesser Flamingo is the smallest Flamingo and has a dark red beak and dark yellow-orange eyes surrounded by a reddish-brown ring and dark bare skin between the eye and beak. These are all hellish tokens of my shortcomings.The Chilean Flamingo is the only species to have grey legs with pink leg joints. Who does? If, by some small chance, anyone wants a bunch of shit pictures of flamingos flying, eating, or sleeping near a rock, I would be more than happy to offer these-as well as the countless pictures from my previous flamingo-peacock mixups-to you free of charge. I’m not going to keep these-I don’t like flamingos either. From now on, every time I go to buy my wife a present, I’m going to consult this:Ĩ. Tail long and thin: to bring it is a sin.” Why did I spend seven hours coming up with that if it didn’t even work? Real swing and a miss here.Ħ. “The tail is a fan: wife wants it from her man. I mean, I literally wrote it down on a Post-it the day before: “Flamingo = long legs. That means I had a total of nine chances to stop, ask myself if this was the type of bird my wife liked, and then say, “No, she likes the big green ones.” But not even once did that thought enter my mind, and I’m left with these. And, of course, not only did I get this picture AND the two previous pictures, but I got six OTHER pictures of flamingos as well. No, instead of a picture of a beautiful peacock, with its exquisite fan of blue and green feathers, I was the world’s biggest idiot and got THIS.ģ. Don’t get me wrong, this picture of a flamingo eating shrimp is fine, but it’s definitely not a peacock, the only bird my wife likes. That, of course, didn’t stop me from mixing everything up and getting her this picture of a full-grown pink flamingo standing in water.Ģ. I don’t know how many times I’ve told myself-my wife likes peacocks, NOT flamingos. ![]()
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