Spend enough time in Florida or Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood and eventually you’ll see a plastic pink flamingo perched on someone’s lawn, standing in its usual one-legged pose. Despite what the plastic flamingo manufacturers have lead us to believe, flamingos don’t come out of the egg knowing how to strike that particular pose, though. It turns…
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F/7.1, 1/160, ISO 320. American Flamingo Why don’t basketball players go away for summer vacation? They’re afraid they might get called for traveling Interesting Fact: The American Flamingo is the most widespread species of the flamingo family. It is the state bird of Gujarat, India. ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/940/overview/American_Flamingo.aspx )
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F/9.0, 1/320, ISO 200. American Flamingo What’s the opposite of a flamingo? A flamin-stop. Interesting Fact: At the beginning of the nesting season, they perform mass courtship displays, where hundreds move together in a coordinated walk. ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/940/overview/American_Flamingo.aspx )
