📣WELCOME American flamingo chicks to our Zoo family! For the first time, the Zoo’s flamingos have nested and hatched fertilized eggs. Once flamingos find a mate, they will build a volcano-shaped mud cone as a nest. Flamingo pairs are monogamous; both parents help build the nest, where they lay a single egg that they then take turns incubating for about 28 days. Named for the Birmingham baseball team that provided the familiar red clay used in their habitat, flamingo chick “Baron” hatched in the

An extremely well-known species, the American flamingo is found on all continents except Antarctica and Australia. Flamingos live in large colonies, oftentimes numbering into the thousands of individuals. These colonies typically occupy large mud flats where loose mud can be easily moulded into mounds that the birds use as nests. Nearby estuaries with high salt concentrations are ideal habitats for filter feeders like the flamingo who can benefit from abundant prey and reduced competition from o