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The Phoebe the Flamingo statue, officially named "HOME", [1] and also known as the Tampa International Airport Flamingo, is a work of public art by American artist Matthew Mazzotta. It is located at the Central Terminal of the Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida .
The American flamingo is a large wading bird with reddish-pink plumage. Like all flamingos, it lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound, between May and August; incubation until hatching takes from 28 to 32 days; both parents brood their young. They may reach sexual maturity between 3 and 6 years of age, though usually they do not ...
The flamingo, seen on the banks of a salt lake on Wednesday morning, is thought to have a genetic condition known as melanism. Extremely rare black flamingo spotted in Cyprus Skip to main content
The greater flamingo is the tallest of the six different species of flamingos, standing at 3.9 to 4.7 feet (1.2 to 1.4 m) with a weight up to 7.7 pounds (3.5 kg), and the shortest flamingo species (the lesser) has a height of 2.6 feet (0.8 m) and weighs 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg).
They are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills and webbed feet. Terns are a group of generally medium to large seabirds typically with grey or white plumage, often with black markings on the head. Most terns hunt fish by diving but some pick insects off the surface of fresh water.
The greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the most widespread and largest species of the flamingo family. Common in the Old World, they are found in Northern (coastal) and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Subcontinent (south of the Himalayas), the Middle East, the Levant, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe.
The lesser flamingo is the smallest species of flamingo, though it is a tall and large bird by most standards. The species can weigh from 1.2 to 2.7 kg (2.6 to 6.0 lb). [5] The standing height is around 80 to 90 cm (31 to 35 in).
Captain Flamingo is an animated television series produced by Breakthrough Films & Television, Heroic Film Company, Atomic Cartoons, and PASI Animation Studios.Loosely based on the spin-off episode (with the same name) of Deke Wilson's Mini-Mysteries by John May (which originally was going to be a 1990s live-action teen series focusing only on Arthur), it premiered on YTV on February 7, 2006 ...