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Photo by DanitaDelimont/Shutterstock.com If you’re a flamingo fan living near Naples or have a trip booked to Southwest Florida this winter, you’re in for a real treat! The Naples Zoo is now home to seven new American flamingos, expanding the...
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Photo by CraigHanson/Shutterstock.com Frankie the flamingo has cemented her lore. Born earlier this year at Paradise Park Wildlife Sanctuary in Hayle, Cornwall on England’s southwestern tip, the young Caribbean flamingo has made international headlines this month for her accomplishments in...
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Parma, Ohio, is an 80,000-person suburb located in Cleveland’s shadow, and it just made the plastic flamingo its official mascot. To the untrained eye, this makes no sense. Parma, Ohio, is not where Don Featherstone, the inventor of the plastic...
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While conducting a wading bird survey in June, avian ecologist Mark Cook discovered something breathtaking - 125 American flamingos, traversing the Everglades in the largest reported flamboyance in Florida since 2014. Eleven years ago, 147 flamingos were seen in the northern...
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The American flamingo is that much closer to becoming the state bird of Florida. On Tuesday, the state’s Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources unanimously approved a bill that would make the American flamingo the Florida state bird and...
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