Some have pink or while feathers. The long legs and webbed feet are well suited for wading. The flamingo eats in a peculiar manner. In this way, It strains out small shellfish and other animals. The bird nests on a mound of mud with a hollow on lop to hold its single egg.
Flamingos are timid and often live together in large colonies.
The birds once lived in the southern United States, but plume hunters killed them faster than they could breed, and the flamingo no longer lives wild in the United States.