When picturing a flock of flamingos, we often imagine long pink legs planted in a shallow lake and heads submerged as they ...

“Flamingos are super-specialized animals for filter feeding,” Ortega Jiménez said. “It’s not just the head, but the neck, ...

Three cooperative birds and a model bird head helped scientists figure out what flamingos are actually doing when they stick their heads upside down underwater.

Flamingos have developed a unique hunting technique that helps them catch prey more easily by relying on their beaks and feet ...

The researchers discovered that the popular pink birds stir up sediment with their webbed, floppy feet, generating spinning ...

Then there's the strange stomping of their feet. The study finds that flamingos' webbed toes create a pair of vortices that ...

Rather than passively filter-feeding, the birds use their heads, beaks and feet to generate motion in the water that funnels invertebrates into their mouths ...

These famous pink birds can be found in warm, watery regions on many continents. They favor environments like estuaries and saline or alkaline lakes. Considering their appearance, flamingos are ...

The beak of a flamingo is unique in being flattened on the angled front end, so that when the bird's head is upside down in the water, the flat portion is parallel to the bottom. This allows the ...

Flamingos look graceful ... "so they're kind of like the bird version of an oyster," Whitfield says. They strain water through their L-shaped beaks, trapping shrimp, algae, seeds and anything ...

To confirm what was happening, Ortega Jiménez and colleagues not only developed computer models of water dynamics, but 3D printed flamingo beaks and ... Water birds have evolved a solution ...