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Rare Flamingo
A rare Andean Flamingo chick hatched at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust on the Severn Estuary in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, is cared for by its 40-year-old father on his nest. It is the first such bird to be bred in captivity anywhere in the world for 12 years.
Newly-hatched Flamingo
A newly hatched Flamingo chick keeping up with his mother at Edinburgh Zoo, after the first successful hatching of the species since 1997.
So cute we had to include it twice
FACT: Flamingos can live for up to 50 years.
Andy the Andean Flamingo
Andy, a 40-year-old male Andean Flamingo in Gloucestershire spent a last fortnight incubating a pebble he has mistaken for an egg leaving wardens, who have replaced the pebble with a wooden replica of a flamingo egg, baffled by his bird-brained behaviour, as it is female flamingos which traditionally sit on the nest waiting for eggs to hatch.
Woah
A newly hatched flamingo tries to stand on one leg.
In flight
(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Fidel the Flamingto
A one-month old flamingo chick, named Fidel, sits on the ground during its daily attempt to walk, in the zoological garden in Cologne, Germany. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)
Here comes the bus
A flamingo feeds a flamingo chick in their enclosure of the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)
Big Kiss
Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)
Double Take
Two of the new Chilean flamingo chicks at Edinburgh Zoo. Keepers are expecting a record-breaking number of flamingo chicks after a successful breeding season.
Flamingos at Chester Zoo
A Caribbean Flamingo at Chester Zoo as they have their health check which involves weighing, ringing, measuring their beak and height and also being microchipped.
Bahrain Flamingoes
A flamingo chick stands beneath its mother's legs in Al-Areen Wildlife Park, in Sakhir, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
City of Rock and Roll
A six-day old flamingo chick and one of its fathers are shown at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Baby Flamingo
The chick was born on 3 October 2010. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Baby Flamingo
FACT: Baby flamingos can take up to two or three years to fully develop the pink feathers of mature adults. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Pretty in Pink
An American flamingo picks its feathers in Miami at the Metrozoo as temperatures soar into the mid-90s. (AP Photo.J Pat Carter)
Miami Chick
A Caribbean Flamingo Chick pokes its head out from under one of its parents. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Flamingo Chick
(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
A beauty
While in Germany...
(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Flamingo Chick
In Miami last year. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Flamingo Flight
A flamingo prepares to take flight at the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Flamingo Love
(AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
Polish Flamingos
(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Brrrrrr
A Flamingo in the snow in London. Image: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire
Getting cosy
FACT: Flamingo's pink colour comes from the carotenoids in their food. Without these, the flamingo's feathers would be white. At zoos, they eat scientifically formulated commercial flamingo feed that keeps their feathers pink. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Watchful eyes
A five-day old Flamingo chick sits between two adults at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Mass. Monday, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Cuddle time
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Taking a splash
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Baby Flamingo
A Flamingo chick is framed by adults as it flaps its wings at the Stone Zoo in the US earlier this year. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Flamingos
On his/her own two feet. Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Flamingos
A two week old unsexed Chilean Flamingo is nudgedfrom its nest by its mother Gabriella and father Maurice at Drusillas Park in Alfriston East Sussex. Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Flamingos
FACT: At Drusillas Park in Alfriston East Sussex, Barry White songs are played to the birds to encourage breeding. Picture date: Friday, 10 August, 2012. Image: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Flamingos
A baby greater flamingo stands next to the adult birds at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo in August this year. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Flamingos
FACT: The tooth-like protrusions are actually structures called lamellae, and enable a filtering system used while feeding. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Flamingos
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
Flamingos
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
Flamingos
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
Ig Nobels Harvard
Artist Don Featherstone, 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner and creator of the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament, poses with his Nancy while being honored as a past recipient during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical applications. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
