Wednesday, August 25, 2021

American Flamingo

 

The flamingo filter-feeds on brine shrimp and blue-green algae. Their bills are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they eat. 


They use their bills upside down.


The pink or reddish colour of flamingos comes from carotenoids in their diet of animal and plant plankton.



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