Flamboyant Flamingos! Caribbean flamingos are known for their bright pink feathers, tall legs and long necks. In the wild, they can be found near lagoons, lakes and swamps within their range. Their diet includes algae and aquatic invertebrates such as mollusks and crustaceans. Being filter feeders, they feed with their bills turned upsided-down in the water. Adaptations in the top half of their bills allow them to filter microorganisms from the water! Have a look at some of the Caribbean flaming

📣WELCOME American flamingo chicks to our Zoo family! For the first time, the Zoo’s flamingos have nested and hatched fertilized eggs. Once flamingos find a mate, they will build a volcano-shaped mud cone as a nest. Flamingo pairs are monogamous; both parents help build the nest, where they lay a single egg that they then take turns incubating for about 28 days. Named for the Birmingham baseball team that provided the familiar red clay used in their habitat, flamingo chick “Baron” hatched in the

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