We have the impression that flamingos are birds living in Africa, and when we watch some documentaries about animals, we often see large areas of flamingos gathered in a lake, as spectacular as a flame, up to hundreds of thousands at the most.
In fact, flamingos do not just live in Africa, but are distributed in many parts of the world. Flamingo is a wading bird, also known as the flamingo, flamingo, the size and stork and crane are very similar, the world has a total of 3 genera and 6 species, of which the great flamingo is mainly distributed in the Mediterranean coast, north to central Europe, east to northwest India, south to central Africa, also found in the West Indies; the little flamingo is the largest number of flamingos, a large number of in Africa, some communities of up to 100,000, in addition to the Persian Gulf and northwest India is also distributed; Caribbean Red Stork, Chilean Red Stork, The distribution of the Andean Red Stork and the Peruvian Red Stork is limited to South America.
China is not considered to be the distribution area of flamingos, but our country is not completely free of wild flamingos. For example, recent media reports in the so-called "Chinese Dead Sea" in The Salt Lake of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, there are 8 flamingos, this bird first appeared here in 2014, when there were only two, and then increased year by year, to now become 8, flamingos in China is a very rare bird, in addition to what can be seen in the zoo, the wild place is rarely seen, so China will rarely have field observation records about flamingos, the reason why they can be seen in yuncheng salt lake, It should be because the salinity water quality of Yuncheng Salt Lake is suitable for flamingos to survive, and there are shrimp and abundant algae in it, which is a favorite food of flamingos, so in recent years, this place has become the habitat of choice for this group of flamingos in winter.
Flamingos are between 80-160 cm long and weigh between 2-4 kg and vary in size from species to species. However, the typical features are that the middle of the mouth protrudes downwards into grooves, the neck and legs are very long, there are webs between the toes, the tail feathers are very short, and the feathers on the wings and body are mostly white, most of them are fiery red or light red, and some are even mostly fiery red and light red, and there are individual species of wings and other parts with black feathers.
Flamingos prefer to inhabit tropical and subtropical salt lakes or beaches, feeding on small shrimp, clams, insects, algae and so on. Foraging, dip your head down, turn your mouth upside down, suck the food into your mouth, drain the excess water and the dregs that can't be eaten, and swallow it.
This kind of bird is timid and cowardly, basically living in groups, often tens of thousands of people interacting together, and like to maintain the consistency of activities, that is, when foraging, they all bury their heads together to forage, and when they fly, they fly together, their necks stretch forward and their legs are swept back, like an arrow off the string, the length of the front and back can exceed 1.5 meters, tens of thousands of such birds fly together, the scene is quite spectacular.
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