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Description English: Andean Flamingo Resident of South America as the name suggests. One leg or two? This one is standing on one leg, a very common practice for flamingos, often for over an hour at a time. There are many theories about why they do this, including being able to dry the lifted foot or to have a shadow more like a tree as a disguise when hunting for food. Nobody quite knows, but the most likely reason is to conserve body heat by tucking a leg under some feathers. The flamingo has long legs with a lot of surface area and in its natural habitat high up in the Andes the temperatures can be very low. http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3772&m=0 Date December 1989 Source From geograph.org.uk Author Trevor Rickard
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