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Idalia likely responsible for first ever recorded sighting of a flamingo in Kentucky
Flamingos are very social birds; they live in colonies whose population can number in the thousands. These large colonies are believed to serve three purposes for the flamingos: avoiding predators, maximizing food intake, and using scarce suitable nesting sites more efficiently. [44]
It is thus largely agreed that flamingos were likely former nesters in Florida. [10] A wild American flamingo in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park. Some Florida Bay birds are thought to be year-round residents. Sightings of flamingos in Florida had reached a low by the 1940s, with no registered records for the entire decade.
Catoosa Wildlife Management Area is a large game-management area on the Upper Cumberland Plateau in Morgan, Cumberland and Fentress counties in Tennessee in the United States. It comprises 96,000 acres (332 km 2 ) of wild land administered by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA).
The greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the most widespread and largest species of the flamingo family. Common in the Old World, they are found in Northern (coastal) and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Subcontinent (south of the Himalayas), the Middle East, the Levant, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe.
Some 220 flamingos have been found dead in the province of Catamarca in northwestern Argentina due to an outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, an official told local media.
Waterfowl at Cross Creeks. Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge is a part of the U.S. system of National Wildlife Refuges located along the Lake Barkley impoundment of the Cumberland River in Stewart County, Tennessee near Dover, covering 8,862 acres (35.86 km 2).
Common name Binomial name Population Status Trend Notes Image Andean flamingo: Phoenicoparrus andinus: 38,000 [1]: VU [1] [1]Maximum estimate. The population has been steadily decreasing, and current population is unknown.