Santons (Provençal: “santoun,” or “little saint”) are small hand-painted terracotta nativity scene figurines produced in the Provence region of southeastern France. Santons are molded in two halves, pressed together, and fused.

nativity scene

Crèche or creche (from Latin cripia “crib, cradle”) may refer to: Child care center, an organization of adults who take care of children in place of their parents.

a representation of the Nativity

Flamingos usually feed while wading in shallows, using their feet to stir up mud on the bottom. Once a young flamingo is able to walk and swim, it joins a creche, or group of young flamingos. These groups can include up to 300,000 birds and are still fed by their parents but guarded by an unrelated adult.

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8 Birds That Can’t Fly

• Penguin. emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri)
• Steamer duck. steamer duck.
• Weka. The weka is another bird of New Zealand.
• Ostrich. The mighty ostrich is truly the king of birds.
• Kiwi. The kiwi is the national symbol of New Zealand.
• Kakapo.
• Takahe.
• Cassowary.

There are low levels of stress and very few of them do escape by flying away. They fact that they don’t attempt to leave this new environment is a key indicator that it is one they are happy with. Keeping a good eye on the overall health of the Flamingos helps to keep problems with bacteria and diseases to a minimum.

“Flamingo poop is the same grayish-brown and white as other bird poop is. When flamingo chicks are really young, their poop may look slightly orange but this is due to them processing the yolk they lived off of in the egg.”

And they’re all around us. Carotenoids give colour to carrots, daisies, papayas, pumpkins, grapefruits and tomatoes. As well as flamingos, salmon, and penguin poop. For these latter three, the specific pinkish colour is a)originally made by non-animal organisms, and b) due to a specific carotenoid named astaxanthin.

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Sherbet is an interactive, toilet-trained flamingo who loves to sing, wiggle, chat back, eat, and poop – on the toilet! Place him on the toilet and watch him poop into the bowl.

There’s a little nub on the toilet seat that pushes a button in on the bottom of the flamingo, so it won’t actually start to “poop” until you physically sit it on the toilet. It grunts and strains, and then “poops” the sand into the water (which takes on the shape it does because it’s hydrophobic).

Thousands of Pink Flamingos and Color-changing Mangrove Caves Turn This Quiet Mexican Town Into a Rainbow Dreamscape Every Year. The number of flamingos present varies from year to year, but some locals say they have seen up to 10,000 at a time.

An extremely rare black flamingo, thought to be only one in the world, has been filmed on the island of Cyprus. Only one other black flamingo has ever been spotted in the wild before and that was in Israel in 2014.

No, blue flamingos do not exist. Information about blue flamingos is a humorous hoax, and the photos of blue flamingos are created by image manipulation. Most likely, one of the first sources of false information about blue flamingos is this site, presenting the “South American Blue Flamingo.”

The bright vermilion flamingos have an unusual way of metabolizing yellow carotene, a class of carotenoids found in the plankton, diatoms and blue-green algae that the birds eat. Pale children who eat lots of carrots and oranges, which are rich in carotenoids, sometimes turn yellow, a harmless and temporary condition.

So, we know what you’re thinking… and no, one #flamingo is not bludgeoning the head of another while its offspring feeds on the blood. These flamingos are trying to feed the same chick with red crop milk. Parent flamingos produce crop milk in their digestive tracts and regurgitate it to feed their young.

If you answered that it’s because of what they eat—namely shrimp—you’re right. But there’s more to the story than you might think. Flamingos are born with gray plumage. They get their rosy hue pink by ingesting a type of organic pigment called a carotenoid.

A video that appears to show two flamingos fighting was shared on Twitter. He explained that the two flamingos are actually feeding a chick, and the ‘blood’ or red liquid is actually crop milk. “Parent flamingos produce crop milk in their digestive tracts and regurgitate it to feed young ones,” he wrote.

Though the pink coloration is most obvious in a flamingo’s plumage, the carotenoids spread a lot further. Flamingo skin is pink and flamingo blood is pink, but popular claims that flamingo eggs or even flamingo egg yolk is pink are completely untrue, and any photos showing it have been photoshopped.

When a flamingo is feeding it will put its neck down under the water with its mouth essentially upside. Because flamingos have become so good at this upside-down style of eating, if you compare a flamingo’s beak to those of other birds, you will notice that they’re reversed.

Flamingos are no more intelligent than most other birds – or, for that matter, most other large herding or flocking grazers such as deer or geese.

Blue-green and red algae, diatoms, larval and adult forms of small insects, crustaceans, molluscs, and small fishes make up the main diet of flamingos. A flamingo’s pink or reddish feather, leg, and facial coloration come from a diet high in alpha and beta carotenoid pigments, including canthaxanthin.

Flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down. Flamingos eat with their heads upside down to enable them to use their tongue as a sieve to catch food. The Flamingos suck in water with their tongue and it exists out the side.