Flamingos
- Flamingo chicks are born gray or white color. As they mature overtime- it can take up to three years, they acquire their orange, pink, or red plumage.
- "Plumage: A bird's feathers collectively."
- Flamingos fees their chicks with crop milk. They feed them with the crop milk, five to twelve days after hatching.
- Flamingos are rare, yet strong and powerful fliers, as well as swimmers.
- When flying in a flock, a flamingo can fly as fast as thirty-five miles an hour.
- "Flock: A number of birds feeding, resting, or traveling together."
- Flamingo's colorful plumage is caused by carotenoid pigments in their food.
- A flamingo's palette consists of algae, crustaceans, plankton, and shrimp.
- There are only six flamingo species in the world, but the different species are spread out throughout the world, in areas such as Caribbean, Europe, South Africa to Africa, and the Middle East.
- The greater flamingo is the largest of the species. It can grow up to five feet tall, and it can weigh a maximum of eight pounds.
- An adult famingo's legs can grow to be thirty-fifty inches long.
- Flamingos typically live twenty-thirty years, but, in captivity, flamingos have been recorded to live up to fifty years.
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