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More Flamingos Are Flocking to Mumbai Than Ever Before. The Reason Could be Sewage

7:21pm March 31, 2019

There is an almost three-fold increase in the flamingo population in Mumbai, India. Rahul Khot, assistant director at the Bombay Natural History Society, tells NPR his speculations as to why.

Flamingos at Jungle Island, a zoological theme park, in Miami in 2017. The long-legged pink birds were once common in Florida. But their striking feathers were prized decorations for ladies' hats, and they were thought to have been hunted out of existence

Florida's Long-Lost Wild Flamingos Were Hiding In Plain Sight

2:10pm March 06, 2018

by Nancy Klingener

Scientists thought Florida's native flamingo population had been hunted out of existence by the 19th century plume trade. A new study suggests the birds have been there all along.

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Scientists have now shown that this position requires almost no muscle activity from the flamingo.

Scientists Pinpoint How A Flamingo Balances On One Leg

5:03pm May 25, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

What appears to be a feat actually requires almost no muscle effort from the bird. The researchers found even a dead flamingo's body will fall into a stable one-leg balance if positioned vertically.

The flamingo ornament was one of hundreds of items that Donald Featherstone made for the Union Products plastics company.

Man Who Created The Pink Plastic Lawn Flamingo Dies

1:15pm June 23, 2015

by Lucy Perkins

Donald Featherstone modeled the lawn ornament after images he saw in National Geographic. "Things I did made people happy, and that's what life is all about," he said in 2006.