12/27/2023 0 Comments Hagen flamingo cartoon![]() That’s why they’re generally quite easy birds to cater for in the zoo.”įloyd’s new home has plenty of perks that might interest a flamingo, including warm temperatures, plentiful food and shallow wetlands. So if this flamingo had found everything it required in one particular wetland, he would stay there. And they will leave a particular area for a new area if food resources are not plentiful, or if they need to go and breed. Flamingos “are what we call itinerant nomads, so they move only when needed. This was different from migration, he said. Though the birds can travel long distances in the wild, “they will stop over in various locations,” he said, moving “between suitable areas for foraging, roosting and nesting because those areas are so few and far between”. Pink Floyd’s journey southward probably wasn’t a direct flight, said Dr Paul Rose, co-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s flamingo specialist group. That would put it in its early 20s today, which is middle-aged for a flamingo (in the wild, they can live to be about 40). No 492 was brought to the Sedgwick county zoo in 2003 at the age of about three, Scott Newland, the zoo’s bird curator, told the Times. ![]() “We have no reason to believe that it is any other flamingo,” Hagen said. The bird had to be No 492, Julie Hagen of the Texas parks and wildlife department told the Times, because the flamingo, named for the number on a tag around its leg, has been spotted locally at this time of year before, and flamingos don’t make a habit of hanging out in the area. □David Foreman /cjrevByDhm- TX Parks & Wildlife March 28, 2022 The flamingo escaped from a Kansas zoo in 2005 and is often spotted on the #TexasCoast. Pink Floyd has returned from the dark side of the moon. ![]()
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