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In the media and fiction, plastic flamingos are often used as a symbol of kitsch, bad taste and cheapness. The movie Pink Flamingos is named after them and helped them become an icon of trash and kitsch. In 2009, the city of Madison, Wisconsin, Common Council designated the plastic flamingo as the city's official bird. [5]
Young flamingos hatch with grayish-red plumage, but adults range from light pink to bright red due to aqueous bacteria and beta-carotene obtained from their food supply. A well-fed, healthy flamingo is more vibrantly colored, thus a more desirable mate; a white or pale flamingo, however, is usually unhealthy or malnourished.
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]
When the Flamingos eat the brine shrimp, their body metabolizes the shrimp, and the pigments turn their feathers pink. Many people think Flamingo's knees bend backward, but the zoo says that we're ...
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 ...
Its a myth that Flamingos are Pink because they eat prawns/shrimp. Cyanobacteria, which is part of their primary diet, contain reddish/brown carotene which cause the pigmentation change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.201.143 ( talk ) 12:43, 27 March 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]
The company directed executives to fly economy on commercial flights instead. Boeing is searching for ways to save money after a rough year. Boeing's new CEO is cutting back on expensive private ...
A Florida woman who said she was playing a game with her boyfriend when she zipped him up in a suitcase and left him to die has been sentenced to life in prison.