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New research illustrates how flamingos use their necks and beaks to create a vortex in the water to trap and slurp up their prey — an evolutionary practice apparently distinct to them.
Scientists studying Chilean flamingos at the Nashville Zoo have now documented how these birds use their floppy, webbed feet, L-shaped beaks, and plunging heads to engineer swirling tornadoes in ...
Magazine. Chilean flamingoes Curtis and Arthur are proving to be perfect parents. The male flamingos, a same-sex couple, successfully hatched an egg at the Paignton Zoo in Devon, U.K., and are now ...
The McCormick Bird House would be closed "until further notice," the zoo said. Two animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have been traced to an outbreak of avian influenza, or bird flu ...
Seven fluffy white Chilean flamingo chicks are on display at a zoo in southwest England for the first time since 2018 — and one is particularly notable for the way it made its entrance.
Testing confirmed that highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, was responsible for the deaths of a Chilean flamingo on Jan. 8 and a harbor seal on Jan. 9. "The zoo is saddened by the loss of a ...