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Greater flamingos, Kenya
Pink patrol
Various types of flamingo are found all over the world. But these odd-looking birds march to more or less the same beat whether patrolling an Andean salt flat, a Caribbean beach or (as seen here) an East African wetland, combing the shallow waters for tasty stuff to slurp. Greater flamingos like these—you can tell them by their tall stature and light-coloured bills with dark tips—are one of two species found here in Kenya. The other type? You've guessed it: the lesser flamingo. This species is shorter, has a crimson-and-black bill and prefers a diet of algae to the small fish and crustaceans hunted by its larger cousins.
Pink patrol
Various types of flamingo are found all over the world. But these odd-looking birds march to more or less the same beat whether patrolling an Andean salt flat, a Caribbean beach or (as seen here) an East African wetland, combing the shallow waters for tasty stuff to slurp. Greater flamingos like these—you can tell them by their tall stature and light-coloured bills with dark tips—are one of two species found here in Kenya. The other type? You've guessed it: the lesser flamingo. This species is shorter, has a crimson-and-black bill and prefers a diet of algae to the small fish and crustaceans hunted by its larger cousins.
Thanks to their colourful collective fashion sense, flamingo flocks are sometimes called "flamboyances".
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