Did you know…🦩The American flamingo lives in large shallow lakes, lagoons and mud flats in the Caribbean Islands, northern South America, the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and the southern United Sates.🦩Flamingos have little or no senses of smell or taste, but hearing and vision (with color perception) are good. Their excellent sense of touch (mainly tactile organs on their tongues) is important when foraging for food.🦩Their diet includes algae, diatoms, small fish, insects and crustaceans (suc

Flamingos walk on their toes and their knees are hidden under their feathers. And sometimes they walk on water! | Stone Zoo

With our new flamingo habitat opening VERY soon, we’re delighted to share that our most fabulous flock just got fluffier! We’re excited to announce that five American flamingo chicks and four Chilean flamingo chicks recently hatched in our Avian Propagation Center. With these nine new flamingo chicks and additional floofs coming from The Association of Zoos and Aquariums partner organizations around the country in the coming months, our bird care specialists have their hands full! These adorable

📣WELCOME American flamingo chicks to our Zoo family! For the first time, the Zoo’s flamingos have nested and hatched fertilized eggs. Once flamingos find a mate, they will build a volcano-shaped mud cone as a nest. Flamingo pairs are monogamous; both parents help build the nest, where they lay a single egg that they then take turns incubating for about 28 days. Named for the Birmingham baseball team that provided the familiar red clay used in their habitat, flamingo chick “Baron” hatched in the