Though flamingos often appear to feed serenely in shallow lakes, their hunting behavior is anything but passive. A new study reveals that these birds create swirling underwater vortexes to trap and ...

Up close, a flamingo’s beak looks almost unreal, with its sharp curve, dark tip, and unusual shape. But every detail is built for a purpose: filtering tiny food from water and mud with incredible ...

Flamingos are most commonly known for their bright pink plumage, and perhaps their preference for standing on one leg. They’re a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae and currently there ...

A close-up portrait of a flamingo reveals delicate feathers, a curved pink beak, and a sharp pale eye staring with surprising intensity. From this angle, the bird looks almost watchful and calculating ...

Flamingos have developed an amazing variety of techniques to create swirls and eddies in the water to concentrate and eat brine shrimp and other organisms, a biologist found. They stomp dance to stir ...

Flamingos are often seen as peaceful waders, standing gracefully in shallow lakes with their heads dipped underwater. But beneath that calm surface, they're executing a surprisingly sophisticated and ...

Flamingos standing serenely in a shallow alkaline lake with heads submerged may seem to be placidly feeding, but there’s a lot going on under the surface. Through studies of Chilean flamingos in the ...

A startling video of a red liquid dripping down a flamingo's face and into the mouth of its young resurfaced and went viral on the Reddit forum "Interesting as F**k," amassing more than 12,000 votes.

Flamingos feed by dragging their flattened beaks forward along the bottom of shallow lakes. To increase the efficiency of feeding, they stomp dance to churn the bottom, create an upwelling vortex with ...