> Which country is home to more than 80,000 flamingos?And the answer: Bahamas.The flamingo is the national bird of the Bahamas, an island nation located inthe Caribbean. The country's southernmost island, Inagua, is home to more than80,000 flamingos. The island's forests also provide shelter to 140 species ofnative and migratory birds.Photo credit: Valdiney Pimenta [https://www.flickr.com/photos/valdiney/] - Flamingos [https://www.flickr.com/photos/valdiney/1352435434/].Althoughflamingos might resemble a strange combination of a stork and a duck, they'reactually not related to either. Instead belonging to the family Phoenicopteridae, flamingos are among some of the most fascinating birds on our planet. Drawn toshallow lakes and ponds, flamingos thrive in environments with very salty waterconditions and few predators. In the shallow water, flamingos will turn theirheads upside down to filter water over small plates in their bills to catchsmall fish, crustaceans and algae. Luckily, flamingos' sense of taste is nearlynonexistent, so they don't mind a little sediment in their dinner.Flamingos do, in fact, get their iconic pink color from their food. As such, thediet available to flamingos greatly affects their appearance, as does theirhabitat. Higher-ranking flamingos across the board tend to be a brighter pink,yet at the same time, the head of a flamingo flock in Africa will likely pale incomparison to any individual flamingo in the Caribbean. Caribbean flamingosenjoy a varied diet and warm climate year round, making it so this subspecieshas evolved to be far more pink than its relatives. Yet that's no dealbreakerfor these strange birds. Different species of flamingo have different eatinghabits, making it so these birds can coexist with just about any other regionalflamingo subspecies.Learn more about flamingos here[http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/7D.html].