Flamingos in Gujarat

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immature or juvenile Flamingoes near Gir National Park, Gujarat, India. Also, see a stint in the same waters...Flamingoes are gregarious wading birds in the genus Phoenicopterus. Flamingos often stand on one leg, the other tucked beneath the body. Flamingos produce a crop milk, like pigeons and doves, due to the action of a hormone called prolactin. Their oddly shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they eat, and are uniquely used upside-down. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV a