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What are a group of baby flamingos called?
crèches
The young leave the nest after about five days to join other young flamingos in small groups, returning to the parents for food. The parents identify their chick by its voice. After about three weeks, the adults herd young flamingos into large groups called crèches where they start to look for food on their own.
What is the plural of giraffe?
noun. gi·raffe | \ jə-ˈraf \ plural giraffes.
How do you spell pink flamingos?
Most famous are the pink flamingos.
What do you call a female flamingo?
All the six species of flamingos have no different names for their male and female genders. They are simply called male flamingo and female flamingo.
What is the plural form of squid?
noun, plural (especially collectively) squid, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) squids.
What is Hippo plural?
hippo. Plural. hippos. The plural form of hippo; more than one (kind of) hippo.
What does it mean to get flocked?
Basically, when one person gets flocked, it’s as though they’ve just been “tagged” and are now “it”. And what that means is that it’s time for them to think up a fun way to flock someone else.
What is the plural of zero?
noun. ze·ro | \ ˈzē-rō , ˈzir-ō \ plural zeros or zeroes.
What does the name flamigo mean?
The name “Flamingo” comes from Portuguese or Spanish flamengo, “flame-colored”, in turn coming from Provençal flamenc from flama “flame” and Germanic-like suffix -ing, with a possible influence of the Spanish ethnonym flamenco “Fleming” or “Flemish”.
What is the behavior of a flamingo?
Behaviour. Flamingos live in large flocks that can have several thousand birds. They frequent shallow bays, tidal swamps, and lagoons where they feed on algae, larvae, and adult forms of small insects, crustaceans, mollusks , and small fishes. The attractive pink plumage of flamingo is a result of the pigments of algae they consume in their diets.
What is the noun for flamingos?
noun flamingos, flamingoes A tall wading bird with mainly pink or scarlet plumage and long legs and neck. It has a heavy bent bill that is held upside down in the water in order to filter-feed on small organisms. Family Phoenicopteridae: three genera and four species, in particular the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
What is Flamingo in Spanish?
A “Flamingo” is a pink colored bird with long legs, not a type of dance. It is a very common mistake to refer to flamenco dancing as flamingo dancing. A likely culprit of this is the fact that the Spanish word for flamingo is “flamenco.”.
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