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Galapagos Flamingo - Coggle Diagram
Galapagos Flamingo
Flamingo appearance
measure 120 - 140 centimetres in length
males weigh 2.8 kg females weigh 2.2 kg
plumage is pink
beak is pink with black tip
wing coverts are red
Facts
they can only with their head upside down
they are the birds with the longest neck
very social birds
have good hearing but little or no sense of smell
Flamingo diet
tiny water plants
crustaceans full of substances called carotenoids
carotenoids pigments make flamingos feathers pink
Flamingo behaviour
stand on one leg, nobody knows why
stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom
build nests with mud, small stones, straw and feathers
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