Pink flamingo
Phoenicopterus ruber
Order: Phoenicoptériforme - Family: Phoenicoptéridés
Size: around 125 cms - Scale: 140 in 165 cms - Weight: from 2.5 to 3.5 kg
Pink Flamingo in Camargue is easily recognizable because of its pink colour and of its long foots.
The way flamingo quack is very meaning.
The flight in spite of its weight is typical, neck and foots elongated.
It frequents the coastal zones where it privileges lagoons and littoral ponds; the Camargue is perfectly convenient for it.
Pink Flamingo feeds on shrimps and on invertebrates filtered in the mud due to its specialized beak endowed with combs. Its favourite dish is the shrimp " Artemia salina " and it's the reason of its pink coloring.
Pink flamingos live in wide colonies of several thousand individuals; the couple builds a nest in ground heightened where the female will put down an annual single egg. Set on by the female as by male during about 30 days, the young flamingo is going to leave the nest after 10 days. He will join then the other young bird and will be brought up in crèche under the supervision of the adults until it first flight, 10 weeks later.
The population of pink flamingo is estimated at about 20 000 couples in the Camargue.
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The characteristic flight of the pink flamingo, neck and foots elongated -
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Pink flamingo getting ready to land on water -
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The pink flamingo lives in colony in Camargue -
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Couple of pink flamingos -
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Very united flamingos move together -
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The pink flamingo is very attentive to its environment even in the rest -
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Pink flamingos on one foot -
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Group of pink flamingos -
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The female pink flamingo is smaller than the male -
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The pink flamingo possesses a short and bent back beak with black point -
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Its foots are Constantly in the water the pink flamingo feeds on shrimps -
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The pink flamingos always ready to devour shrimps -
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Flamingos in the reflections of the setting sun from Camargue -
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Couple of pink flamingo -
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Flight of pink flamingos in setting sun from Camargue -
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The Camargue at the sunset
