When picturing a flock of flamingos, we often imagine long pink legs planted in a shallow lake and heads submerged as they filter feed. Though it looks peaceful, there’s a lot going on beneath the ...

Q: You recently wrote that several kinds of birds often stand on one leg but you didn't explain why. Whenever I see a flock of flamingos in a zoo, at least some of them are on one leg, Surely ...

Flamingos look graceful, but when it's time to eat, they're very silly. "All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at the ...

Greater flamingos apparently aren’t fans of a sun-faded look for their neck feathers. Flamingos’ feathers help the birds fly, keep their bodies dry and attract mates. The feathers get their red color ...

It appears that birds of a feather really do flock together. A new paper published in Behavioural Processes suggests that flamingos develop long-term friendships, technically called associations, with ...

What is a group of flamingos called? It’s not just a flock! Discover the surprising collective noun for a group of flamingos ...

A couple of lesser flamingos squabble in an early courtship behavior in the colony located at Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Thursday, March 23, 2023. Park animal keepers have come up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sara Tabin is a science contributor writing about animals. The color pink isn’t usually associated with aggression, but new ...

Is ageing inevitable? While most living beings age, some do so more slowly than others. A new scientific study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) addresses a ...

Video by @memphiszooWhat do flamingos talk about on the first date? Nothin’. 🦩❤️🦩This behavior is our Chilean flamingos flirting! Chilean flamingos will use this dancing display to attract other ...

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We studied nonbreeding American Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) using the Celestún Lagoon, Yucatán, Mexico, to characterize feeding patches and to describe factors influencing patch choice.