#greater flamingo

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Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

© SONER SABIRLI

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greater flamingo

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Greater Flamingo

By Andriot Jac

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A pair of greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) stroll across the wetlands in South Africa

by Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith

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Greater Flamingo

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Greater Flamingo - Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Setúbal/Portugal (23/05/2025)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 600mm F/4E FL ED VR with Nikon AF-S TC-14E III]

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93. James's Flamingo vs. 351. Greater Flamingo

Comparison time! Two flamingos more than 250 drawings apart. I'm already excited to re-draw the first bird on the last day of the challenge \⁠(⁠ϋ⁠)⁠/

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#FlamingoFriday: South Africa has 2 native flamingo species, the Greater Flamingo & Lesser Flamingo; both appear in works by South African expressionist artist Maggie Laubser (1886-1973):

1. Flamingos on the beach, n.d.

2. Flaminke en seilbootjie, 1932

3. Uitsig met boot en flaminke, n.d.

4. Landscape with houses, figure, boats and birds, n.d.

(all works oil on board, likely c.1930s)

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Flamingo, Saldanha Bay, South Africa

[kavohh707]

2024 - Bird year in review - part 1.

The first part definitely belongs to my journey to Portugal. It was my first real holiday since the pandemic and it was wonderful. First, Portugal is always wonderful, I just love the people, the landscape, the vibe and of course the birds.

There were so many nice nature reserves, many bird hides (meeting other nice birders in those bird hides). I didn't see everything I wanted to see, but had many great experiences. The weather was nearly too good for bird photography (too sunny), but I managed to take over 3500 pictures anyway. Sorting through them took really long.

The highlights:

Seeing birds of the corvid family like the rare red-billed chough and the really not rare iberian magpies (who were a constant present in the garden of one of my accommodations).

My first osprey, not the first I've seen, but the first I've managed to photograph, my definitely first glossy ibis and first western swamphen and of course my first ever hoopoe, which I really wanted to see.

The many cute song birds like the corn buntings, the stonechats, the black redstart and many more.

And of course all the birds on long legs wading through shallow water: the spoonbills, the turnstones, common ringed plovers and of course the black-winged stilts, the flamingos and the western cattle egrets and so many more.

Overall, it was a joy to visit Portugal. Besides the birds I am always happy to be near the ocean (the last picture is not the ocean but the Tejo river).

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European wild pig Sus scrofa scrofa

With greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus

Observed by brunoparisotto, CC BY-NC

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Greater Flamingos.

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Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

© Ricardo Salgueiro

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A male lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) attempts to join in on the mating dance of a flock of greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) in Camargue National Park, France

by Georgie Alexon

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Greater Flamingo