You are what you eat absolutely applies to flamingos, who get their bright pink color from the brine shrimp they feed on. | National Geographic TV

Adopt an American Flamingo for your loved one this Valentine’s Day! Your symbolic adoption supports vital work to preserve the places birds need including irreplaceable wetlands. Adopt by 2/4 to ensure your plush bird and certificate of adoption are delivered in time for the holiday. | National Audubon Society

FLAMINGO CHICK RESCUE UPDATE: It’s been a whirlwind few days for our team in South Africa. (ICYMI: We’re helping with the unprecedented rescue of 1,800 lesser flamingo chicks in Kimberley, South Africa, after they were abandoned by their parents due to a severe drought: bit.ly/DZbirdrescue.) Avian experts and vet teams from zoos across the world have flown in to help keep the birds alive. We have 4 team members there who are spread across the Pretoria and Johannesburg areas at zoos, wildlife reh

This flamingo chick now has adopted parents after its biological family abandoned it as an egg. 😍 Keepers at the zoo say they monitored the egg in a nursery and then put it in a flamingo couple's nest. That nest belongs to birds named Florence and Freddie, who have taken the chick under their wings. They both feed the hatchling "crop milk" that comes from their digestive tracks. The fluffy gray chick is now two weeks old and doing well. 🦩🦩🦩 🎥: CNN Newsource https://www.kens5.com/article/lif

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