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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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Photo by RohitgoluDey/Shutterstock.com More than 2,300 people have signed an ongoing petition to protect Navi Mumbai’s DPS Flamingo Lake, the latest update in a battle to secure conservation for the body of water beloved by migratory flamingos. In January 2024,...
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Caribbean flamingos on the island of Cozumel - Photo by YingnaCai/Shutterstock.com After months away in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, Caribbean flamingos are back on the island of Cozumel. When the hurricane struck the region last fall, the island’s Caribbean...
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