i’m so pleased you agree!!! allow me to take you on a quick journey through… flamingos
tallest boys. very pale pink with bright pink legs and beak. eldritch. genuinely terrifying up close. 3/10
gets points for being easiest to identify. you can really see why they were named after fire when you look at these guys. unfortunately ‘caribbean’ is hard to spell and one time i saw 200 of them run at the window i was watching from in a courtship display, and i’ve never known fear like it. 5/10
a good boy?? a humble boy? just a nice, normal flamingo. bright pink knees make it easy to identify. i have no beef with chileans. 6/10
precious beautiful angels. so gentle? so kind? at WWT, old or sick birds often get put in with the Andeans because they’re a lot nicer than the others and won’t harass them. recently they raised a bunch of chilean chicks and it was the cutest thing i’ve ever fucking seen. 11/10
James’s flamingo (also known as the puna flamingo)
i absolutely cannot consistently ID this bird. there is a single james’s flamingo living in the andean flock at Slimbridge and i can only ID him like ‘that one has a slightly more pink bum’. then again, his name is Mr James, and he’s the origin of this picture
which is one of my favourite things to ever exist, so 10/10 for him
look at this fucking demon bird. i spent nearly a year of my life studying these fuckers and all i learned is that they probably sleep at night time. there’s a flock of 2.5 million of them living on a lake so burning hot and alkaline that it’d burn a human in seconds, and they don’t give a fuck. makes sense. must have pretty similar conditions to their natural habitat of Hell. they’re also only like 80cm tall? there are geese taller than these birds. they look like demons and i love them with all my heart. 15/10
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