Caribbean flamingo pictures1/3/2024 ![]() ![]() Fun travel excited girl for luxury Caribbean holiday panoramic. In fact it escaped from the Sedgwick county zoo, in Wichita.Show Image Detail Beach vacation summer Caribbean travel woman sunbathing relaxing with swimming pool pink flamingo float - funny holiday banner panoramic Royalty-Free Stock Photo Show Image Detail Pink Caribbean flamingos in a pond in Jurong Bird Park Royalty-Free Stock Photo Show Image Detail Vacation beach woman jumping of joy with pink flamingo pool float for summer holidays on ocean banner background. An earlier version said the flamingo had escaped from the Wichita county zoo. This article was amended on 1 April 2022. “It was just one of those humbling moments,” he said, “where you’ve told all these people over the years that there’s no flamingos in Texas, and, damn, here’s a flamingo.” “But it’s likely to move around to try and find another flock of birds, because it will still have that strong breeding urge at the right times of the year.”įoreman hasn’t seen No 492 since early March, but he hasn’t forgotten the experience. “I wouldn’t say that a wild flamingo by itself is going to miss being social,” Rose said. A Caribbean flamingo, which may have been carried to the area on the winds of a tropical storm, appears to have befriended Pink Floyd in 2006, though they haven’t been seen in each other’s company since 2013, the Times reported.īut even with its companion gone, Floyd may not be lonely. No 492 did manage to find a friend, at least for a while. “They nest in flocks because it’s very important for the whole flock to breed at the same time to get the biggest number of chicks to fledging.” Their social behavior is also “a byproduct of all having to feed in the same place on the same types of food”. “Socializing is quite important for flamingos because it’s how they direct their breeding behavior,” Rose said. That’s why they’re generally quite easy birds to cater for in the zoo.”įloyd’s new home has plenty of perks that might interest a flamingo, including warm temperatures, plentiful food and shallow wetlands. So if this flamingo had found everything it required in one particular wetland, he would stay there. ![]() And they will leave a particular area for a new area if food resources are not plentiful, or if they need to go and breed. Flamingos “are what we call itinerant nomads, so they move only when needed. This was different from migration, he said. Though the birds can travel long distances in the wild, “they will stop over in various locations,” he said, moving “between suitable areas for foraging, roosting and nesting because those areas are so few and far between”. Pink Floyd’s journey southward probably wasn’t a direct flight, said Dr Paul Rose, co-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s flamingo specialist group. That would put it in its early 20s today, which is middle-aged for a flamingo (in the wild, they can live to be about 40). No 492 was brought to the Sedgwick county zoo in 2003 at the age of about three, Scott Newland, the zoo’s bird curator, told the Times. ![]() “We have no reason to believe that it is any other flamingo,” Hagen said. The bird had to be No 492, Julie Hagen of the Texas parks and wildlife department told the Times, because the flamingo, named for the number on a tag around its leg, has been spotted locally at this time of year before, and flamingos don’t make a habit of hanging out in the area. ![]() □David Foreman /cjrevByDhm- TX Parks & Wildlife March 28, 2022 The flamingo escaped from a Kansas zoo in 2005 and is often spotted on the #TexasCoast. Pink Floyd has returned from the dark side of the moon. ![]()
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