When flamingo's fly you see the contrasting colours of bright pink, black and white most beautifully. These flew up from a small lake in the Camargue, the marshy delta of the Rhone in southern France. In Europe, only these, the Great or European flamingo, are found in the wild. Almost all the flamingo's of Europe are found in southern_France. Some small colonies nowadays also in a few other countries. The pink colour is due to the food they eat, which contains many carotenoids.
This flamingo species grows to about 150 cm high.
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