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Baby Flamingo at SeaWorld Orlando

Walker, the baby flamingo

Walker is a four-week-old Caribbean flamingo at SeaWorld Orlando. He eats fish, krill, hard boiled eggs, and cereal. When he matures, he’ll also eat a special formula made just for flamingos. At three years, he’ll develop the characteristic bright pink plumage. The coloring results from eating carotenoid pigments found in a variety of plant and animal life.

For more info, see Seaworld.org.

Walker, the baby flamingo

Walker the baby flamingo

(Photos by Jason Collier/SeaWorld Orlando)

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This entry was posted on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pm and is filed under Animal News, Animal Photos, Baby Animals, Zoos and Aquariums. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Baby Flamingo at SeaWorld Orlando”

  1. astrohater Says:
    June 27th, 2009 at 12:26 am

    I never knew baby flamingos weren’t pink. This little guy/girl is pretty cute white though.

    If they don’t receive a proper diet, do they still become bright pink eventually or turn a different color?

  2. Animal Fact Guide Says:
    June 29th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    @astrohater, my understanding is no, they wouldn’t turn pink if they didn’t ingest the pigments from their diets. However, I think if they didn’t receive proper nutrition, they might not live long enough to test the theory.

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