Yes, really. That is the collective noun for a group of flamingos. As seen in Slimbridge Wetland Centre, Gloucestershire, and near Thessaloniki, Greece.
Monday Portrait: A Flamboyance of Flamingos
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We love them! A daily sight here, round and about the salt pans.
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How marvellous! Lucky you.
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I remember seeing flamingos at Slimbridge when I was a child and being thrilled by it. So exotic for a little girl brought up in the Gloucestershire countryside! Thanks for reminding me of that.
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I don’t think you have to be a little girl to be thrilled by them. I still am thrilled.
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Well, flamboyant they are!
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Utterly. Extraordinary birds.
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Love it!
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Thanks. So did I.
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Brilliant portrait.
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Thanks!
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So lovely lucky you 🙂
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I was lucky. But they’re not nearby, so I shan’t see them again soon.
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Wonderful
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They do cheer up a Monday morning, don’t they?
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Absolutely Margaret
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Thank you for my new fact for today. A flamboyance how wonderful and your pics do them justice too. Delightful.
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Yes, useless facts like these make the world go round, Agnes.
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I see you managed to capture one of the rare birds with four legs and two heads!
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Of course! I like to go the extra mile.
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Beautiful photos!
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Thank you. Beautiful birds.
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What a perfect collective noun for these wonderful birds 🦩🦩🦩
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I love it.
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Perfect. They are most definitely flamboyant. Don’t see many around here.
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Nah. Nor here.
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They are beautiful! I get to see them in our zoo. 🙂
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Lucky you!
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Flamboyance! I love it.
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It’s great, isn’t it?
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I think the only places I’ve seen flamingos is in a zoo. How cool 😀 😀
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Whereas I’ve only seen them in a wildlife centre or in the wild. Lucky me!
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Lucky you indeed. 😀 😀
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So elegant in an awkwardly gauche sort of way – those spindly legs!
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I know. Moving slowly is the trick to their looking elegant, I think.
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Fabulous Margaret. You have captured their elegance and sophistication.
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I guess that creatures who shovel around with their beaks for nourishment don’t qualify as sophisticated in human terms, but yes, they are, aren’t they?
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I didn’t know about the flamboyance! How perfectly, perfect. Love your photos too.
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Thanks Cindy. A group of Cindys plus camera would definitely be a Perfection!
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Wow. I did not know that. I’m going to post soon about a group of pelicans…wonder what THOSE are called. I better look it up.
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Obviously, I had to go and look that up immediately, and I see you have 4 words to choose from. I wonder which you’ll choose?
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Hmmmm I haven’t looked it up yet…will go do that now.
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I didn’t know flamingos could be seen in the UK.
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Not wild they can’t. But the wetlands habitat at Slimbridge suits them pretty well.
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Is that a captive population then?
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They’re in no way in captivity … but I don’t think they go anywhere else.
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Great photos, flamingos are so elegant! I’ve gone to Africa and South America to see them – and now it turns out, I could just have done a quick trip to Gloucestershire! 😆
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Add to this the Camargue….. or the zoo! They are such wonderful, silly, exotic birds. Gotta love them.
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I think of them as austere rather than silly. But they are wonderful. Yes, I haven’t been ti the Carmargue.
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