- Why did you choose this bird?
- I love the colour of this bird , it looks so
beautiful
and has a massive beak that's not that usual to all the other birds , to me it is different and looks so pretty because of it's pink / orange colour! - What countries are your bird found in?
-Chilean, Andean and James' flamingos live in South America, and the greater and lesser flamingos live in Africa. Greater flamingos can also be found in the Middle East and India. Flamingos are water birds, so they live in and around lagoons or lakes. These bodies of water tend to be saline or alkaline.
- Is your bird smart/Has hidden talents?
- Flamingos often stand on one leg to preserve body heat, tucking the other leg into their plumage so it is kept warm. If flamingos are highly intelligent animals, they are even more unlikely to have flocked into the shape f a large flamingo because it would be a useless thing to do and animal intelligence tends toward the utilitarian.
- How does this bird represent you / and why is it a good bird?
- This bird sadly does not represent me , but i just like how the Flamingo has a different sense of colour unlike all the other birds that have a certain colour! Also a flamingo's colour is based on what they eat , the more that they eat the more they turn into the colour pink!
-How many more of these birds are estimated to still be alive?
- Estimated total population is not more than 200,000 individuals, and the population is in a decline , But there is still a heap of them in different sort of countries and are hopefully safe and sound , leaping around the lakes with happiness!
Bob? Unusual name, most of the class would have gone for alliteration like Fiona the Flamingo, or Fred the Flamingo, but I guess it suits your personality, and you probably had a chuckle when you named her/him/it? The fonts in the new blog format are really tricky aren't they? I tried to get around this when I was blogging, by inserting tables in, so that my images and text made a correlation with each other. I did send out to your class, around August 5th, a tables document. I think the blog could make it easier to control font size and colour than it currently does. Do you have any tips for sorting fonts?
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