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Related: About this forumPink Floyd, the Kansas zoo fugitive flamingo, seen on the Texas coast
A fugitive flamingo that escaped a Kansas zoo over a decade ago was spotted on the Texas coast on March 10, according to officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. TPWD stated in a post that the flamingo, Pink Floyd, was spotted at Rhodes Point in Cox Bay near Port Lavaca in early March.
"Looks like Pink Floyd has returned from the 'dark side of the moon'," TPWD wrote in its post on Friday, March 25.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Pink-Floyd-flamingo-escaped-Texas-17033789.php
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article333814/Flamingo-that-escaped-from-Kansas-zoo-in-2005-is-spotted-gallivanting-in-Texas.html
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)outside captivity, hence why so many are still in captivity. They would die.
This is a neat story.
modrepub
(3,469 posts)That's like claiming man can teach a bird to fly. We shouldn't be surprised when an animal does what an animal has been born to do. It's hardwired into their DNA.
texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)This is a good story.
GentryDixon
(2,944 posts)douglas9
(4,358 posts)It was a blustery evening in central Kansas in 2005 when the flamingos saw a chance to make their jailbreak.
The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita was in the process of clipping the wings of a flock of the exotic birds to keep them from flying away. But when strong gusts of wind blew through, two birds waiting for their turn discovered they could get enough lift to escape captivity once and for all.
It is a black eye, to be honest, Scott Newland, then the zoos curator of birds, told the Wichita Eagle in 2013. It was basically an error. We are not fond of this story.
Seventeen years later, one of the fugitive flamingos nicknamed Pink Floyd for his (or her?) pink and white hues appears to have turned up in a bay near Port Lavaca on Texass Gulf Coast, calmly meandering along the shore as seagulls putter around nearby.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/03/30/fugitive-flamingo-spotted-texas/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/us/flamingo-escape-kansas-texas.html