Natural Habitat
Disturbances in the habitat, such as severe weather, affect resources which may cause flamingos to move around during the year, as they adapt to shifting food availability and good breeding sites. Can tolerate twice the salinity of sea water and alkalinity up to pH 10.5, prefers saline to fresh water. Highly social, forming large colonies with tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals. Saline lagoons, muddy flats, shallow lakes -coastal or inland. Tall, slender, wading birds with webbed feet.