It's the first time in 6 years
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park has hatched its first flamingo chicks in six years.
There are 50 Chilean flamingos at the zoo and they're one of the first animals you see as you enter the park.
Two chicks have just hatched, with the parents protecting them from both the weather and gulls.
The chicks are small and pale and fluffy – in fact, they couldn’t look less like tall, pink adult flamingos right now, but give it a year or so…
Curator of Birds Jo Gregson: “They don’t breed every year and the make-up of the flock changes over time, but now we have a number of birds of breeding age – and the long, hot summer might well have helped, too! People think flamingos are soft and delicate because they’re pink, but actually they are tough birds that have evolved to live in a tough habitat.”
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