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Photo by KhairilAzharJunos/Shutterstock.com At the ripe age of 70, a greater flamingo in English captivity laid her first egg. Gertrude, one member of a 60-plus flamingo flamboyance at Pensthorpe Nature Preserve in Norfolk, England, achieved the life milestone last month....
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In recent times, we have seen flamingos turn up in some strange corners of this country, but none are more wild than the sighting this past week: a flamingo in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. You read that correctly. Massachusetts, a not...
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Police in Parma, Ohio, arrested three men on Thursday in connection to the removal and damage of the city’s flamingo statue. At about 5 a.m. on May 25, video surveillance caught three people attempting to shove the sawed-off, 7-foot flamingo...
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Since 1927, the northern mockingbird has served as the state bird of Florida. But lawmakers in the Sunshine State have put into motion multiple bills that would designate the flamingo as Florida’s most popular bird. On Dec. 6, Rep. Jim...
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Photo by WirestockCreators/Shutterstock.com States across the eastern half of the United States have had sightings of wild flamingos in recent weeks in the aftermath of storms forcing the fowls further north than usual. Typically tropical birds, flamingos aren’t native to the...
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