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clowderofcloudies:telurin:goosegoblin:jafarsapologist:goosegoblin:jafarsapologist:goosegoblin:dreamingofsparklingstars:Greater FlamingoPhoto taken by meI think it might actually be a Caribbean/ American flamingo- it certainly looks a lot closer to that colour! Either way, this is a beautiful shot <3No it’s just called greater because it’s better than the rest of the flamingosthen andean flamingos should really be called the GREATEST flamingos so jot that down, buckoI’m sorry these are FABULOUS thank you for sharingi’m so pleased you agree!!! allow me to take you on a quick journey through… flamingosgreater flamingotallest boys. very pale pink with bright pink legs and beak. eldritch. genuinely terrifying up close. 3/10Caribbean flamingogets points for being easiest to identify. you can really see why they were named after fire when you look at these guys. unfortunately ‘caribbean’ is hard to spell and one time i saw 200 of them run at the window i was watching from in a courtship display, and i’ve never known fear like it. 5/10chilean flamingoa good boy?? a humble boy? just a nice, normal flamingo. bright pink knees make it easy to identify. i have no beef with chileans. 6/10andean flamingoprecious beautiful angels. so gentle? so kind? at WWT, old or sick birds often get put in with the Andeans because they’re a lot nicer than the others and won’t harass them. recently they raised a bunch of chilean chicks and it was the cutest thing i’ve ever fucking seen. 11/10James’s flamingo (also known as the puna flamingo)i absolutely cannot consistently ID this bird. there is a single james’s flamingo living in the andean flock at Slimbridge and i can only ID him like ‘that one has a slightly more pink bum’. then again, his name is Mr James, and he’s the origin of this picturewhich is one of my favourite things to ever exist, so 10/10 for himLesser flamingolook at this fucking demon bird. i spent nearly a year of my life studying these fuckers and all i learned is that they probably sleep at night time. there’s a flock of 2.5 million of them living on a lake so burning hot and alkaline that it’d burn a human in seconds, and they don’t give a fuck. makes sense. must have pretty similar conditions to their natural habitat of Hell. they’re also only like 80cm tall? there are geese taller than these birds. they look like demons and i love them with all my heart. 15/10I really love lessers and they’re little demon faces. Chileans are cool tool. EXCUSE YOU ALL FLAMINGOS ARE A 50/10 MINIMUM -- source link
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