Out and About in Dubai

DB has recently told me that the FIB (Flamingo in Black) in this post is not a loner or outcast as I had thought, but actually a juvenile flamingo. I’m upset now, but in a different way. Before, I thought the other pink flamingos wouldn’t play with the black one, but now, I’m upset at the poor parenting skills of the flamingos, letting the juvies out of sight to roam on their own…okay, now I’m over it.

Page 22 of the Bird Book has this to say about the Greater Flamingo:

Status: partial migrant. Winters Turkey, Near East, Cyprus, also coasts of Arabian Gulf, Red Sea and Arabian Sea. Rare Jordan and vagrant Lebanon.

Habitat: saline coastal lagoons, salt-lakes, mudflats. Breeds colonially on mud banks or in shallow water of salt-lakes building mud-heap nest, a few centimeters above water.

Uh huh. Fascinating.

You can buy this book on Amazon.com for $26.40 or for AED175 ($47.70) at Magrudy’s (it’s like a Borders).

Tags: birds, wildlife