After a few days, they'll start eating some solid food and carotenoids. Flamingos must eat carotenoids in order to develop their distinctive pink color.

Flamingos get their pink color from their diet. They eat krill, a small shrimp-like crustacean in the ocean. Visitors at the flamingo exhibit will notice two different shades of pink.

Yes, but Why Are Flamingos That Color? So: Why so pink? The Smithsonian National Zoo knows. "Carotenoids give carrots their orange color or turn ripe tomatoes red," the zoo's website states.

Prior to the zoo’s innovations, the color of flamingos under human care often faded to nearly white. With the addition of carrot juice to their diets beginning in 1948, flamingos at the zoo were ...

Pres: Good work, guys. TA: Thank you sir, but it's all in a day's work. Pres: By the way, what color are flamingos anyway? TA: Whatever you say, sir.

LeBlanc does not specialize in flamingos, but she said as long as there's plentiful food for them, the birds should do OK. Flamingos get their pink color from the carotene in their diets.

In the summer of Barbie, pink was certainly the color of the season. And seeing pink along the North Carolina coast, whether as the color of a swimsuit or beach bag, isn't unusual.

One of the largest flocks of American flamingos in a decade was spotted in the Everglades by avian ecologist Mark Cook. The previous largest was a flock of 147 in 2014.