The only place in India where flamingos are known to breed is the Run of Cutch.
It has never been my good fortune to watch the flight of flamingosat very close quarters.
When flamingos are about to alight the legs leave the horizontal position assumed during flight and come slowly forward until they touch the water.
Every Anglo-Indian has seen flamingos in the wild state, if not in India, at any rate from the deck of a ship as it crept through the Suez Canal.
I doubt whetherflamingos ever swim from choice, but the webbed feet are likely to be useful, especially in the case of young birds, when flamingos are swept off their feet by the wind in a violent storm.
Flamingos are very numerous in Ceylon, where they are known to the Singalese as the "English Soldier Birds" on account of their "crimson tunics" and upright martial bearing.
The flamingosrose in a stately manner; they did not all leave the water simultaneously.
Likewise, Stuart Baker has given flamingos a place among the Indian ducks and their allies.
Baby flamingos are covered with greyish down, and have normally shaped bills, which, however, at an early age assume the curious form so characteristic of the adult.
That evening, as we rode into Rosy Camp, we saw a number of flamingos upon the lagoon, and shot an upland goose.
When flying, flamingos present a striking and beautiful sight, with legs and neck stretched out straight, looking like white and rosy or scarlet crosses with black arms.
However, if we carefully sift their characters, the flamingos obviously reveal themselves as much nearer related to the Ciconiae, especially to Platalea and Ibis, than to the Anseres.
Fossil remains of flamingos have been described from the Lower Miocene of France as P.
Flamingos have a very wide distribution, and the sole genus comprises only a few species.
In the adjacent Green River Basin to the east, paleontologists from the University of Wyoming have found nesting grounds of Eocene flamingos in slightly younger sediments of the Green River Formation.
All at once the sound of a musket-shot was re-echoed through the forest, and two flamingos fell.
At the same instant a light canoe doubled a little cape formed by some mangrove-trees jutting out into the bed of the stream, and darted in pursuit of the flamingos which had fallen in the water.
You have seen a cloud at sunset shining with lovely tints of red and pink and orange: well, the flock of flamingos flying in the sky looks something like that.
And of course all the flamingos rise up in the air and fly away to a safe place, till the enemy goes away.
To see a whole flock of flamingos flying in the sky far above one's head is a most wonderful sight.
Sometimes many thousands of flamingos are found together around one place, which is then called a flamingo colony.
And they all keep level at the same great height, in rows and ranks, just like an army, as there are thousands and thousands offlamingos in the flock.
The flamingo's feathers are a bright red in color, with white or pink at the edges; so the thousands of flamingos look like an army of soldiers with red coats.
When thousands of flamingos in a colony are standing around the lake or by the river, where they live, it is a very grand sight from a distance.
The flamingos did not disturb themselves in the least at the approach of the travelers, but this did not suit Paganel.
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