ML169041791

Age and sex

Adult, Unknown sex - X

Media notes

American Flamingo

Observation details

MO staked out bird. Possibly Hurricane Barry assisted in it arrival to the area. May have been the same bird that was in Lake Co, TN near SH 79 on 13 July 2019 a week earlier than this sighting. The Lake Co, TN AMFL was first observed by Victor and Ruben Stoll and Alan Troyer. Tim Kavan (MDC) texted at 10:01 pm that he had heard about an AMFL on 19 July and located the bird on the morning at 6:29 am, 20 July 2019. The AMFL was observed on CR 733 just north of SH WW in a flood water pool that was quickly drying up. I don't know who first located the bird and reported it to Tim Kavan. At the CR 404 site when Paul and I arrived it was difficult to get the foggy, AC-cooled, spotting scope lens clear of water condensation and clearly on the gangley, long-legged, very long necked, two-toned pink AMFL The body was a darker pink than the scapulars and tertial feather. The bill had a black tip and lighter color bill. It was difficult to see the tri-colored bill in our distant images. It was striding back and forth with its head relatively in slow motion on the water surface. Its body moved back and forth in multiple directions in long, wide sweeps of its neck. Its neck would proceed with snake-like limber, fluid, graceful motion but it was not moving in cadence with the its legs, which were often moving east while the head moved west.

Technical information

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510 pixels x 512 pixels

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