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Beautiful Flamingos: The Pink Birds with an Interesting History Flamingos are famous for their bright pink feathers, stilt-like legs, and S-shaped neck. Flamingos are omnivorous birds that eat brine shrimp, algae, and snails. When a flamingo spots potential dinner, its favorite foods include shrimp, snails, and plantlike water organisms called algae—it plunges its head into the water to catch the fish using its upper beak like a shovel.

Beautiful Flamingos: The Pink Birds with an Interesting History Flamingos are famous for their bright pink feathers, stilt-like legs, and S-shaped neck. Flamingos are omnivorous birds that eat brine shrimp, algae, and snails. When a flamingo spots potential dinner, its favorite foods include shrimp, snails, and plantlike water organisms called algae—it plunges its head into the water to catch the fish using its upper beak like a shovel.

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a pink flamingo standing on some rocks next to the water and another bird in the background
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a flamingo flying in the air with its wings spread out and it's beak extended

Graceful flight of Greater flamingo 🦩💗✨ Photo by @vishallokare_wildlife Shot on @nikonindiaofficial #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturecapture #birdwatching #naturelovers #birding #wildlifeinfocus #birdsofinstagram #explorenature #wildlifewonder #instagood #naturephotography #nikon #ngtindia #nikonphotography #birdphotography #wildlifemagic #bbcearth #Nature #vishals_wildlife #maharashtra #maharashtraunlimited #nargeoindia #photographer #photogrpahy

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a pink flamingo standing on top of a beach next to a body of water

#Flemingo Flamingo (Greater Flamingo) is a large waders, one of the stork-shaped Geranium stork. Flamingo Neck long, often curved into S-shaped, 1 to 1.4 meters, the wingspan of up to 1-1, 6 meters, with white and red feathers. Because the whole body for fire red and named Flamingo, also known as Red Stork, Red Crane....

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two flamingos are standing in the water with their wings spread

Phoenicopterus roseus, Greater Flamingo, family Phoenicopteridae, found in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and in southern Europe. It resides in mudflats and shallow coastal lagoons with salt water. Using its feet, the bird stirs up the mud, then sucks water through its bill and filters out small shrimp, seeds, blue-green algae, microscopic organisms, and mollusks. The coloration comes from the carotenoid pigments in the organisms that live in their feeding grounds.

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