A flamingo's beak has a filterlike structure to remove food from the water before the liquid is expelled. Shrimplike crustaceans are responsible for the flamingo's pink color. The birds pale in ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler—absurdly long legs, knobby ankles (that look like ...

There's a reason for that, too. National Geographic Kids explains, "When a flamingo spots potential dinner, it plunges its head into the water, twists it upside down, and scoops the fish using its ...

Two veteran National Geographic photographers give their tips ... I shot all the images of our friendly flamingo (below) at 1/8th of a second at f/5.6. In the first set, you can see how rapidly ...

where his second assignment was to sculpt a pink flamingo. No live models presented themselves, so he unearthed a National Geographic photo spread. It took about two weeks to model both halves of ...

National Geographic's new show Incredible Animal ... including the mating journey of the lesser flamingo, a bird species native to sub-Saharan Africa. In the exclusive clip, a flamboyance of ...