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Learn how flamingos reach sexual maturity, breed, court, pair bond, copulate, and nest. Find out how flamingo colonies synchronize their nesting and how they build mud mounds for their eggs.
Learn how Flamingos mate, build nests, and lay eggs in their colonies. Find out how long it takes for the eggs to hatch and how the offspring are cared for by their parents and other adults.
Learn how flamingos attract mates with group dances, make-up and plumage color, and how they mate with brief mounts and sperm transfer. Find out why flamingos are monogamous for one season...
Reproduction and Development. Flamingos have no set breeding season, because breeding is highly linked to rainfall levels, which must be high enough to provide an adequate food supply. Flamingo pairs are monogamous and both parents help build a volcano-shaped nest, where they lay a single egg that they then incubate for about 28 days.
Flamingos build nests that look like mounds of mud along waterways. At the top of the mound, in a shallow hole, the female lays one egg. The parents take turns sitting on the egg to keep it...
Learn how flamingos mate, nest, and care for their chicks in synchronized patterns. Find out how flamingos use mud, feathers, and other materials to build nests, and how they change color during mating season.
Learn how flamingos go from egg to adulthood, with unique stages of nesting, incubation, chick development, juvenile growth, and adult maturity. Discover the biological intricacies and social behaviors of these remarkable birds.
Learn about the six species of flamingos, their pink plumage, their diet, their breeding habits, and their distribution. See videos and photos of flamingos in flight, flocking, and feeding.
Liz Bonnin finds out how flamingos attract their mates.Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthUnplugged Animal Slow Motion: http://bit.ly/EarthUnpluggedSl...
Learn about the geographic range, habitat, physical description, reproduction, and behavior of American flamingos. Find out how flamingos communicate and breed in groups with complex rituals and displays.