A wader bird residing in mudflats (coastal wetlands which are formed when mud is deposited by tides or rivers) and shallow coastal lagoons with salt water, flamingos feed on small shrimps, seeds, blue-green algae and molluscs. Using its feet, the flamingo stirs up the mud and sucks water through its beak and filters out its ‘edibles’. A migratory bird to us, flamingos arrive here in the north towards the end of August and are south-bound around March-April.
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Read more: The flamingos are back but for how long?
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