These birds are the elegant swimmers. Lesser flamingos are excellent swimmers. They eat shrimp and blue-green algae to brighten themselves up. The bird uses it webbed feet and long legs to stir up the water in shallow areas of lakes and rivers. The average flamingo lifespan is about 25 to 30 years. The diet of the flamingo is to blame for the flamingo… At the beginning of the nesting season, flamingos perform spectacular group courtship displays of synchronized dancing, preening, neck stretching and honking. Flamingos with shallow-keeled beaks have a coarse filter, and they trap molluscs, crustaceans, small fish, and insects that are around an inch in length. Flamingos filter-feed on brine shrimp and blue-green algae as well as insect larvae, small insects, mollusks and crustaceans making them omnivores. Flamingos are famous for their bright pink feathers, stilt-like legs, and S-shaped neck. Alkaline lakes are the ideal places of flamingos. Flamingos don't grow those brilliant pink feathers on their own. Flamingos are are monogamous, meaning pairs stay together for life. Standing on one leg is actually the most comfortable resting position for a flamingo. Claim: Flamingos are pink because their diet is high in organisms like shrimp and red algae. A popular part of a flamingo’s diet includes brine shrimp and blue-green algae. Flamingos do not have too many predators. However, there are exceptions. Flamingos have a diet that consists of small marine organisms such as brine shrimp, tiny fish, fly larvae and plankton. For the flamingos this a bonus. Flamingos eat blue-green and red algae, diatoms, small insects, crustaceans, molluscs, and small fishes ; Standing in shallow water, flamingos lower their necks and tilt their heads slightly upside-down, allowing their bills to hang upside-down facing backward in the water Their bills are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they eat, and are uniquely used upside-down. Flamingos breed during April and May while gathered in groups on the extensive, warm, watery mudflats. The flamingos with deep-keeled beaks have a relatively fine filter, and they are capable of filtering minute particles, like single-celled plants. The same is true of most other blue and green birds, from blue jays to green parrots. The wingspan of flamingos measures about 152 cm (60 in). They'd have devolved into oddly-shaped white birds. These flamingos mainly feed on algae and diatoms. Flamingos like to flock together. When a flamingo spots potential dinner—favorite foods include shrimp, snails, and plantlike water organisms called algae—it plunges its head into the water, twists it upside down, and scoops the fish using its upper beak like a shovel. Flamingos, on the other hand, have feathers that stay pink no matter which way you look at them. In East Africa, over one million lesser flamingos sometimes gather together, into the largest known flock among birds today. A flamingo would probably not turn green if it were to eat grass. They also eat small fish, insects, red algae and diatoms. Flamingos also eat considerable quantities of blue-green algae. Special tough skin and scales on their legs prevent burns, and they can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at … As I expect you are aware, animals don’t typically take on the color of the foods they eat. In captivity these birds can live up to the age of 50 years.