The number of flamingos at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and across Florida has been rising, giving hope for a pink renaissance more than a century after the birds’ population w… ...

Lesser flamingos are currently considered near-threatened, rather than endangered, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: there are 2-3 million left, four-fifths of them spread ...

Flamingos look graceful, but when it's time to eat, they're very silly. "All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at ...

Flamingos drag their flat beaks along shallow lakebeds, stomp their feet to churn sediment and form vortices, then clap their bills to funnel prey like brine shrimp into their mouths.