Spend some time watching flamingos, and you might think that not much goes on in their tiny heads. But these elegant avians actually lead complex social lives. Each bird has certain other individuals ...

A couple of lesser flamingos squabble in an early courtship behavior in the colony located at Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Thursday, March 23, 2023. Park animal keepers have come up ...

Q: You recently wrote that several kinds of birds often stand on one leg but you didn't explain why. Whenever I see a flock of flamingos in a zoo, at least some of them are on one leg, Surely ...

Flamingos look graceful, but when it's time to eat, they're very silly. "All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at the ...

It appears that birds of a feather really do flock together. A new paper published in Behavioural Processes suggests that flamingos develop long-term friendships, technically called associations, with ...

Greater flamingos apparently aren’t fans of a sun-faded look for their neck feathers. Flamingos’ feathers help the birds fly, keep their bodies dry and attract mates. The feathers get their red color ...

It is nesting season for the flamingos at the Tulsa Zoo. News On 6’s Alyssa Miller was live and showed us more about this process on the Arca Continental Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages Porch.

Is ageing inevitable? While most living beings age, some do so more slowly than others. A new scientific study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) addresses a ...

These five incredible photos from the 2024 edition of The Nature Photography Contest demonstrate collective animal behavior at its finest. In a flock of sheep, survival is a collective effort. Each ...

When Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida last August, the Category 3 storm produced an unexpected outcome: a surge in the Sunshine State's flamingo population. The hurricane hit during the flamingos ...