Flamingos, often pictured standing still with their heads submerged in water, make for a pretty picture. But peep underwater, and you’ll find the tall, elegant pink birds bobbing their heads ...

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 ...

“Flamingos are super-specialized animals for filter feeding,” says Ortega Jiménez. “It’s not just the head, but the neck, their legs, their feet, and all the behaviors they use just to ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Flamingos are often seen as peaceful waders, standing gracefully in shallow lakes with ...

Flamingos look graceful, but when it's time to eat, they're very silly. "All of their feeding behavior is so weird," says Steven Whitfield, the director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at ...

Masters of fluid dynamics, the pink birds use everything from the shape of their feet to the chattering of their bills to ...

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 ...

“Flamingos are actually predators, they are actively looking for animals that are moving in the water, and the problem they face is how to concentrate these animals, to pull them together and fe ...