#Flamingo

[draconym]

Got too high and started crying about the really small baby flamingo in Our Planet that was born too late.

[okapiaconcolor]

by Jami Bollschweiler

[feather-bone]

[ID: An illustration of a pink flamingo facing to the left, standing in clear blue water with three more flamingos, a white sun, and a green-orange background. End.]

It's a mingo!

[vintagelasvegas]

Casino floor at the Flamingo, April 1950. Photo by J. R. Eyerman.

In the historic lore of the Flamingo Hotel a common claim is that the resort pioneered the absence of clocks and windows from the casino, a design that encouraged gamblers to lose track of time. While the claim about the clock may be true, these previously unpublished photos of the casino, taken in the time of its original layout, show a hundred-foot-wide plate-glass window opening to the courtyard.

Billy Wilkerson gets props for the complementary policy debuted at the Flamingo, whereby there were no windows and no clocks on the walls of the casino. — Las Vegas Resort-Openings, The History: Part VI. 6/1/2015 At the center of it all was a casino that had no clocks and no windows. - The Stylish Flamingo Hotel Shaped the Las Vegas Strip. Smithsonian, 6/23/2017 The Flamingo was one of a kind. It helped pioneer many of the features that are now ubiquitous in casinos. It had no windows or clocks … — A bloodstained past leaves the Las Vegas Strip's oldest hotel with a dilemma. SF Gate, 2024. 

Other writers have made a closer distinction, saying the no-windows, no-clocks concept came from Flamingo founder Billy Wilkerson, and that it was changed by Ben Siegel after he took over the project, adding to construction costs.

“Once, after the builders had constructed a solid wall in the casino, Siegel demanded that they add an enormous plate glass window with a view of the pool. This was also a radical departure from Wilkerson’s vision of a casino without natural light or other distractions.” - Excerpt From Hollywood Godfather (2018) by W. R. Wilkerson III. “Ben’s mandate [included] the replacement of a solid wall in the casino for a plate-glass window through which gamblers would be able to see the pool. Ben frequently called upon Richard Stadelman to make further alterations in the building’s plans, causing the architect to sue Ben for the additional time required to revise his drawings. The two eventually settled out of court.” - Excerpt From Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (2015) by Larry D. Gragg

The casino carpet with images of a Flamingo, Vegas Vic, and gambling motifs, is the same as the carpet seen in the lobby from a photo (below) also taken in 1950.

Caption: 3rd November 1950: A couple sign the register at their hotel before a traditional Vegas Wedding. Photo by Doreen Spooner/Keystone Features.

[cookiedoves]

🎉 bird party requests ~

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“Pen and inkwell”

“I'm lucky enough to live close to the Camargue, a perfect place to photograph pink flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus). This image shows a flamingo searching for prey in a muddy pond. The photograph was taken late in the day, with light cloud cover. Positive exposure compensation produced the high-key effect. The result reminded me of a paintbrush covered in ink.”

by Jonathan Lhoir (Belgium).

2023 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Feeding the Flamingoes, lead-glass window, 1898 Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company

[sybil--vain]

Let's balance with mama!

[famousfishathletecookie]

Baby flamingo.

[vulcanette]

[sm-baby]

✨FURRY ADOPTABLES

I found old designs that I haven't really made anything for!! Kofi is current suspended so if ur interested DM me!!

Imma do more in a bit OwO Skimming my folders rn

[herpsandbirds]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/flamingo-dads-hatch-chick-together_n_66c0babae4b00547468b4b2e

2 Flamingo Dads Successfully Hatch Adopted Chick Together

A same-sex flamingo couple at an English zoo has welcomed a fluffy new family member. Curtis and Arthur, two male Chilean flamingos at Paignton Zoo in Devon, are the zoo’s first same-sex pair to “successfully hatch and raise a chick together,” the organization announced Monday on social media. Zoo staff members “aren’t entirely sure” how the two got their egg, but the “most likely scenario is that the egg was abandoned by another couple” and then “adopted” by Curtis and Arthur, bird curator Pete Smallbones said in a news release...

Read more: 2 Flamingo Dads Successfully Hatch Adopted Chick Together | HuffPost Impact

[shittybirdart]

american flamingo

[neverlostphotography]

Birds! Went to the San Diego Zoo for the first time and took a whoolleeee lot of photos