Tag: Flamingo

  • In The Pink

    In The Pink

    Here’s a vibrant Chilean Flamingo! These birds lay a single egg on their mud-mound nests.

  • Flamingo Fire

    Flamingo Fire

    Those ripples up there in the top right of this photo have not been added as a strange kind of post-processing thing, they are the ripples in the water behind this graceful (and sleepy) Chilean Flamingo.

  • Pink Feathers

    Pink Feathers

    This Chilean Flamingo lives in Paignton Zoo, and thanks to the easing of the Covid-19 lockdown measures Zoos will be able to re-open again from the 15th of June. I cannot wait to revisit this place, it’s one of my favourite locations for animal photography, so many interesting species (and all well looked after). What…

  • A Gathering of Pink

    A Gathering of Pink

    Most of the Chilean Flamingos were fast asleep when I took this photograph, apart from this one particular bird. What did this image teach me? In researching the Chilean Flamingo I discovered not 1 but 2 interesting facts… firstly, the word flamingo is derived from the Portugese for “red goose”, and secondly the collective term…