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a bird born gray that eats itself pink, balancing through the apocalypse on one leg.
means A tall wading bird with long legs, a curved bill, and pink or reddish plumage, native to warm regions and often seen standing on one leg in shallow water.
from From Spanish or Portuguese 'flamengo,' which traces back to the Latin 'flamma,' meaning flame — a nod to the bird's fiery color. There's a charming twist: the word also came to mean 'Fleming' (a person from Flanders), and some say the Flemish were teased as ruddy-faced, flamboyant folk, so the bird and the people may have borrowed each other's nickname. The flame root, in any case, runs through it all.
- color source
- Pink comes from pigments in shrimp and algae
- one-legged stance
- Standing on one leg actually requires zero muscle effort
- head down
- Feeds with bill upside down, filtering water
- group name
- A flock is called a flamboyance
- milk makers
- Both parents produce bright red crop milk
greater flamingo — largest flamingo species, up to 150cm tall, found in africa, asia, and europe
american flamingo — bright pink species native to caribbean and galápagos islands
andean flamingo — rarest flamingo species, fewer than 35,000 individuals in high andes mountains