The long, hot days of in- 

 cubation some thirty of 

 them are a period of te- 

 dium for flamingos and 

 for observers alike. Many 

 displacement activities re- 

 lieve the monotony, and a 

 "seventh-inning stretch" is 

 one of these. 



Stephen F. Briggs 



Flamingos feeding on 

 "mud" which may be very 

 rich in an organic content 

 of various bacteria, algae, 

 diatoms, protozoans, mol- 

 luscs, and marine worms. 



A creche of young flamin- 

 gos, now very gooselike in 

 their gray down, and highly 

 vulnerable to all enemies, 

 natural and unnatural. 



Stephen F. Briggs 



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