Dressed Up In Pink
by Renee Sullivan
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Dressed Up In Pink
Artist
Renee Sullivan
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Photograph - Photography
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Fabulous flamingos in Mexico. I'm so glad we decided make the effort to find them. It's amazing to me how rare flamingos really are - at least in the US. I always assumed that Florida was filled with them. And then I lived there. Never did I see even one.
So I did my research. Here's what I learned: According to Audubon of Florida, "At the time of the arrival of Europeans to Florida, there was a small breeding population of Flamingos in extreme southern Florida -- this would have been the northernmost extent of their Caribbean range. Since that time, their range has diminished and flamingos no longer breed in Florida. Occasional sightings of flamingos in the southern reaches of Everglades National Park are thought to be birds that are vagrants from the Yucatan population. Flamingos seen elsewhere in the state are likely escaped birds from captive wildfowl collections."
I guess I figured, like many other people probably do, that seeing an abundance of plastic flamingos meant the real thing was near by. :)
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March 30th, 2015
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