Speaking of flamingos, everyone is very familiar, but in our impression, it seems that this bird only lives in Africa, which may be because there are large areas of flamingos in the African lakes described in tv documentaries, in fact, flamingos are widely distributed around the world, and there are also such birds in our country.
Flamingos is a wading bird, belonging to the ornithischi order ⇒ flamingo order⇒ flamingo family, also known as flamingos, flamingos, etc., its body size and stork and crane are very similar, body length between 80-160 cm, weight between 2-4 kg, different species of body size varies. However, the typical features are that the neck and legs are very long, the middle of the mouth protrudes downward into a groove, there are webs between the toes, and the feathers are mostly white, with fiery red or light red between them, and some are even mostly fiery red and light red, and there are also individual species with black feathers on the wings and other parts.
At present, flamingos in the world have a total of 3 genera and 6 species, almost all over the world, but mainly in the middle and low latitudes, of which the great flamingo is mainly distributed in the Mediterranean coast and south-central Europe, West Asia and northwest India, to the south to central Africa, etc.; and the little flamingo is the most abundant flamingo, a large number of existing in Africa, the number of some communities up to 100,000, the large flamingos seen in our documentary are mainly this bird, and also distributed in the Persian Gulf and northwest India; the Caribbean Red Stork, The distribution of the Chilean Red Stork, and the Andean Red Stork and the Peruvian Red Stork is limited to South America.
Although China is not the main distribution area of flamingos, there are still wild flamingos in China. In January this year, there were 8 wild flamingos in the salt lake scenic area of Yuncheng district in Shanxi, China.
According to the "Beijing Daily" and other media reports, a lake wetland in ShajintaoHaisumu, Leikou County, Bayannaoer City, Inner Mongolia, China, has recently flown 5 beautiful flamingos, inhabiting and preying here, and living very comfortably. Li Chunliang, a local forest police officer, said that this is the second year that flamingos have come to inhabit this place, because they have also come here last year, but they should not stay here for a long time, because they still have to migrate north, and after eating and replenishing nutrients here, they will continue to fly north to find habitat.
Flamingos prefer to live near waters with high salinity concentrations, feeding on small fish, shrimp, algae and plankton in the waters. This bird occasionally appears in some large areas of water in the northern region of China, but it is not much in number and is relatively rare, so after it appears in a certain place, it will often become news.
Resources:
Beijing Daily article on April 24" "The world's endangered flamingos appear in Inner Mongolia"