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The greater flamingo is the tallest of the six different species of flamingos, standing at 3.9 to 4.7 feet (1.2 to 1.4 m) with a weight up to 7.7 pounds (3.5 kg), and the shortest flamingo species (the lesser) has a height of 2.6 feet (0.8 m) and weighs 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg).
Pink Flamingos was released on VHS and Betamax in 1981, and the re-release in 1997 from New Line Home Video became the second best-selling VHS for its week of release. The film was released in the John Waters Collection DVD box set along with the original NC-17 version of A Dirty Shame , Desperate Living , Female Trouble , Hairspray , Pecker ...
Phoenicopteriformes / f iː n ɪ ˈ k ɒ p t ə r ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is a group of water birds which comprises flamingos and their extinct relatives. Flamingos and the closely related grebes ( Podicipedidae ) are contained in the parent clade Mirandornithes .
Bahasa Indonesia; Ирон; Íslenska ... Greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas, 1811: widespread in Africa and southwest, south-central Eurasia Size: Habitat:
The flamingo has a pale pink body with brighter upperparts, deep vinaceous-pink lower neck, breast, and wing coverts. It is the only flamingo species with yellow legs and three-toed feet. [7] Its bill is pale yellow near the skull, but black for the majority of its length, and curves downward.
Donald Featherstone (January 25, 1936 – June 22, 2015) was an American artist most widely known for his 1957 creation of the plastic pink flamingo while working for Union Products. [2] Featherstone resided in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, [3] where he kept 57 plastic flamingos on his back lawn. [4]
The American flamingo is a large wading bird with reddish-pink plumage. Like all flamingos, it lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound, between May and August; incubation until hatching takes from 28 to 32 days; both parents brood their young. They may reach sexual maturity between 3 and 6 years of age, though usually they do not ...
Edie and the Eggs were a punk/celebrity-exploitation band featuring Edith Massey, known for acting in several films by John Waters.The band's name referred to Massey's character in Pink Flamingos, who had an obsession with eating eggs and romanced an egg delivery man.