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Caribbean Flamingo or the American Flamingo


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**a-z-animals.com ** || **Caribbean Flamingos are the only flamingo to naturally inhabit North America. **
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Caribbean_flamingo.jpg/300px-Caribbean_flamingo.jpg caption="photo credit - Wikipedia"]]
 * The color of the flamingo comes from the flamingo eating a type of algae that then turns the flamingo into the bright pink bird that we are so familiar with. **
 * a-z-animals.com ** || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Caribbean_flamingo10.jpg width="382" height="260" caption="photo credit - Wikipedia"]]
 * Flamingos use their large, oddly shaped beaks to filter shrimp out of the water. The flamingo uses it's strangely shaped upside-down beak to separate mud and food in the water. **
 * [[image:http://www.flamingoresources.org/images/cariflam.jpg width="232" height="322" align="center"]]
 * They are deep pink/red/orange in color and they have the brightest plumage of all flamingo species. **

**theanimalfiles.com ** Flamingo information from Animals A-Z || Photo animals.howstuffworks.com **a-z-animals.com ** ||
 * The flamingo is often seen on the banks of the lake standing on one leg. **
 * The flamingo is actually sleeping when it is on one leg but the strange **
 * thing is, that only half of the flamingo is actually asleep - the half that **
 * contains the leg still standing remains active. **