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Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread of the flamingos, standing up to about 1.5 m tall on stilt-like legs yet weighing only a few kilograms — a build that lets it wade into water too deep for most competitors. Its pink colour is not innate: chicks hatch grey-w…
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- A Greater Flamingo can filter as many as 20 beakfuls of water per second to collect its food.
- Flamingo chicks hatch grey — the pink develops over years from carotenoids in their food. The bill works upside-down, filtering water on the same principle as a baleen whale. Standing on one leg appears to cost them no muscular effort at all. Adults feed their chicks a fat-rich "crop milk", a trait shared with pigeons.
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