The "official" pink flamingo is from Union Products. Don Featherstone of Massachusetts invented the pink plastic lawn flamingo, gracing lawns since 1957. There are more plastic flamingos in America than there are real ones.Other significant threats to flamingos in the wild include predators, illegal poaching for their feathers, and hunting for their eggs or tongues as a delicacy. The Andean flamingo is the most threatened of all flamingo species due to the loss of its habitat.With veterinary care, a regular diet, and fewer predatory threats, flamingos can live up to 50 years in captivity. Here, we can see they’re very similar to Geese but opposite to the reclusive barn owl. Each bird looks out for one another as they also do possible dangers. Evolutionary-speaking that helps them survive. Flamingos have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years in the wild. Flamingos eat, swim, and live in large numbers.While flamingos are classified as wading birds, like herons, egrets, spoonbills, and cranes, they are genetically closer to grebes, an aquatic diving waterfowl.
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