Perhaps because of the influence of some animal documentaries, when we think of flamingos, we all think of it as a bird that lives in shallow lakes in Africa, because it has fiery red feathers, and this gregarious bird often spreads out on the lake like a cloud, which looks very spectacular.
But in fact, the flamingo is not only living in Africa, there are many in South America and India, as a long-distance flight of birds, it can also be said that its traces are all over the world, China also has wild flamingos.
However, the flamingo in Our country is traditionally not called flamingo, but called the flamingo, because it belongs to the stork family, in fact, it has appeared in many places in China. On February 19, local media in Qinghai said that flamingos were found in the Yellow River section of Xunhua County, Qinghai Province, and two flamingos, one female and one male, preyed on the crossing in the water, which aroused the interest of many local friends to watch.
In fact, not only in Xunhua County, Qinghai Province, but also in Haixi Crook Lake, Guide County, the Yellow River section of Guide County, and Qunke Town, Hualong County, Haidong City, they have also appeared.
Wild flamingos have also been reported in other provinces, such as the Salt Lake in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, a desert lake in Dengkou County, Inner Mongolia, the Wushen Banner of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, and Huize County in Yunnan Province.
It can be seen that the geographical distribution of flamingos in China is also very extensive, but it has to be admitted that the wild number of this bird in China is very rare, and the number of each occurrence is only a few, for example, there are only two flamingos in Xunhua County reported in Qinghai Province this time, and there is only one flamingo in Huize County, Yunnan Province, and now the number of flamingos in Yanchi, Yuncheng, Shanxi Islet, but there are only 8, and it is precisely because the number of wild flamingos in China is scarce, so it will become news because of its rarity. At the same time, this also shows that the wild flamingo is a rare bird in China.
Flamingos are the common name of 6 species of birds in 3 genera of ornithopods and storks, its size is similar to storks, about 80 to 160 cm high, and weighs 2.5 to 3.5 kg, so is there any difference between Wild Flamingos in China and wild flamingos in Africa and other places?
In fact, there are two kinds of flamingos in Africa, namely the great flamingo and the small flamingo, also known as the great flamingo and the small flamingo, the big flamingo is slightly larger, almost all the flaming red feathers on the body surface, only the long feathers of the wings are black feathers; the little flamingos are slightly smaller, the feathers on the surface of the body are mostly white or pink, only the two wings have fiery red feathers at the root and front end, and the long feathers on the wings are also black feathers, and the flamingos that appear in China basically belong to the category of little flamingos.
Great Red Stork
Little Flamingo
Resources:
Qinghai News Network February 19 article "Rare! Flamingos appear in Qinghai Xunhua