01/14/2021
With fancy pink feathers, legs like stilts, and a beak shaped like a boomerang, few birds are as wildly distinctive as flamingos. We may picture them wading in tropical lagoons on the Caribbean, but the world’s six species are far flung, found across much of South America, Africa, southern Europe, and western India.
The birds’ pink color is derived from the beta-carotene in the tiny crustaceans, algae, and plankton that are the flamingos’ main source of food.
