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Common Name: Greater Flamingo. Scientific Name: Phoenicopterus roseus. They locate a suitable spot on the mudflat to build a nest the spot is usually chosen by the female. Nest building is sometimes interrupted by another flamingo pair trying to commandeer the nesting site for their own use. Flamingos aggressively defend their nesting sites.
Both the male and the female contribute to building the nest, and to defending the nest and egg. Occasional same-sex pairs have been reported. After the chicks hatch, the only parental expense is feeding. Both the male and the female feed their chicks with a kind of crop milk , produced in glands lining the whole of the upper digestive tract not just the crop. Production is stimulated by the hormone prolactin. The milk contains fat, protein, and red and white blood cells.
Pigeons and doves— Columbidae —also produce a crop milk just in the glands lining the crop , which contains less fat and more protein than flamingo crop milk. For the first six days after the chicks hatch, the adults and chicks stay in the nesting sites. At around seven to twelve days old, the chicks begin to move out of their nests and explore their surroundings. The first flamingo hatched in a European zoo was a Chilean flamingo at Zoo Basel in Switzerland in Since then, over flamingos have grown up in Basel and been distributed to other zoos around the globe.
Greater, an at least year-old greater flamingo , believed to be the oldest in the world, died at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia in January, Many flamingos that live in Kenya and Tanzania are dying.
Scientists do not know why. They think it may be because of bacteria in the water. Many molecular and morphological studies support a relationship between grebes and flamingos.
Flamingo facts for kids Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Quick facts for kids. Answer : Flamingos make a special liquid called crop milk in their digestive tract.
They spit this up to feed their babies. Both males and females can make the milk. Answer : Flamingos are an awesome sight in flight.
They fly in large flocks with their necks and legs outstretched.
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