LIVE FLAMINGO WEBCAM AT REID PARK ZOO
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- Location: Reid Park Zoo, Tuscon, Arizona, United States
- Source: www.reidparkzoo.org
- Info: Live streaming flamingo webcam at Reid Park Zoo in Tuscon, Arizona. The Chilean flamingos with their vibrant pink feathers feature in the Flamingo Lagoon Exhibit.
More Info: Chilean flamingos are found at shallow lakes and lagoons from the high Andes to Patagonian steppe as well as coastal waters. They have a distinctive salmon-pink “bustle” with a paler pink body, greyish legs and red feet and knees.
Video showing how a flamingo feeds underwater:
Flamingos have few natural predators because they live in remote, inhospitable places. Their mostly alkaline diet does not fit the needs of other animals. By eating the smallest of organisms, they not only keep watering holes productive, they also help circulate the waters by turning over the mud and silt on the bottom of rivers, streams, and ponds.
The Chilean flamingo is the most numerous of the south American flamingos. Estimated total population is not more than 200,000 individuals, and the population is sadly in a decline.
The Chilean Flamingo’s diet is almost entirely dependent on algae and plankton it gets from the salt lagoons and soda lakes it claims as its habitat. Being that they are restricted to these environments, it makes them extremely susceptible to habitat loss and water pollution.
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