Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

Photo by Claudio Contreras

Greater flamingos courtship dance (Phoenicopterus ruber) Lake Bogoria, Kenya

Photographer: Anup Shah

Line Dance For Birds

Caribbean Flamingos lining up for a dance with others egging them on in the former Jurong Bird Park. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

ISO had been pushed up to 400 for this shot and details expectedly took a hit. It was a 1/2-inch sensor kit. The shutter speed for this was already just 1/125 second. And it would’ve been slower if this had been shot at base ISO and would’ve otherwise ended up with motion blur.

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American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

© John Quine

Examples of same-sex pairs successfully raising young have been documented in at least 20 species, and in a few cases, homosexual couples actually appear to have an advantage over heterosexual ones.¹³

13. In some bird species in which same-sex pairs are unable to obtain fertile eggs on their own (or in which homosexual parenting has yet to be observed in the wild), parenting skills have been demonstrated by supplying homosexual pairs with "foster" eggs or young in captivity. Same-sex pairs of Flamingos, White Storks, Black-headed Gulls, Steller's Sea Eagles, Barn Owls, and Gentoo Penguins, for example, have all successfully hatched such eggs and/or raised foster chicks.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

© John Quine

Although the standard social unit in Flamingos is the breeding monogamous pair, a number of alternative heterosexual pairing and family arrangements occur.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

Flamingo parents (of either sex) typically feed their chicks a blood-red "milk" produced in their crops, and both males in homosexual couples feed their chicks with this crop milk.

Two pair-bonded male Flamingos feeding crop milk to their foster chick

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

Caribbean Flamingo by Heike Rosenbaum Via Flickr: Seen and photographed at Cologne Zoo Cologne, Germany Thank you all for visiting and your kind comments, awards and faves - I appreciate them all.

Flamingos by Coyoty Via Flickr: Phoenicopterus ruber. At the Pittsburgh Zoo in Pittsburgh, PA.

Flock of American flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) performing courtship strutting, Quinta Playa, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Photographer: Tui De Roy

Happy New Year

Caribbean Flamingos in the former Jurong Bird Park getting up and wishing each other as a new year dawns. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

This was captured with the exposure biased 2/3 stop darker to preserve highlights and then shadows were darkened a little in post.

おびただしいヨーロッパフラミンゴの中に一羽だけコフラミンゴがいると聞いて。そんなん全力で探す。

@盛岡市動物公園

It was written that there's a single Lesser Flamingo among the numerous Greater Flamingos. I found him.

@Morioka Zoological Park