Did you know…🦩The American flamingo lives in large shallow lakes, lagoons and mud flats in the Caribbean Islands, northern South America, the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and the southern United Sates.🦩Flamingos have little or no senses of smell or taste, but hearing and vision (with color perception) are good. Their excellent sense of touch (mainly tactile organs on their tongues) is important when foraging for food.🦩Their diet includes algae, diatoms, small fish, insects and crustaceans (suc

Adopt an American Flamingo for Mother’s Day! Your symbolic action helps protect birds and their habitats. Adopt today and we’ll send an eCard in time for the holiday. | National Audubon Society

📣WELCOME American flamingo chicks to our Zoo family! For the first time, the Zoo’s flamingos have nested and hatched fertilized eggs. Once flamingos find a mate, they will build a volcano-shaped mud cone as a nest. Flamingo pairs are monogamous; both parents help build the nest, where they lay a single egg that they then take turns incubating for about 28 days. Named for the Birmingham baseball team that provided the familiar red clay used in their habitat, flamingo chick “Baron” hatched in the