This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Monday, 4 April 2022
Pretty (Impressive) Flamingo?
There seems to be a plethora potential musicology rifts in this story. 'Pink Floyd' (aka number 492) is an African flamingo, who made a flying escape from Sedgwick county zoo (Wichita, Kansas), in 2005. Seventeen years later, he has been spotted, 700 miles away in Texas (not, in this case, Amarillo), by a fishing guide (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/01/flamingo-kansas-fled-zoo-texas). The flamingo (and a fellow breakout) escaped the zoo, when the keepers failed to clip their wings. The only pink birds generally seen in his coastal area by the fishing guide, are Roseate spoonbills. He was, consequently, somewhat amazed to see (and photograph) an African flamingo in the sea.
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