Male flamingos produce and use their own make-up pigments to colour their feathers before displaying to potential mates, a new study shows. They get their 'make-up' from the uropygium glands, the area ...

When flamingos hatch, their feathers are actually a drab light gray. So why are flamingos pink as adults? Flamingos live by lakes, swamps and wetlands, and so they eat mostly algae, insect larvae and ...

A major breeding ground for flamingos in Turkey saw a sharp drop-off in numbers this year because of an ongoing drought. Lake Tuz is the second-largest lake in Turkey and normally hosts around 6,000 ...

A flamingo is not born pink. Many flamingo chicks start out grey or whitish, and their colour deepens over time. The famous pink comes from pigments called caro ...