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Pink flamingos have been spotted significantly farther north that what is considered normal.
And no, we’re not talking about plastic flamingos to decorate your summer lawn.
Flamingos – blown off course by Hurricane Idalia – have been seen in Franklin County in central Pennsylvania.
Sightings also have been reported in Florida, Ohio, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas and Kentucky. according to NPR.
Birds getting caught in hurricanes is “a fairly common phenomenon,” according to American Birding Association Digital Communications Manager Nate Swick, but not for flamingos, he told NPR.
“We’re seeing flamingos all over the place. We’re seeing them in places that we didn’t expect them,” Swick said. “Once the pair of birds were found in southern Ohio, sort of everything kind of broke loose.”
Wednesday’s flamingo pair in Ohio was the northernmost sighting until a different pair of flamingos was spotted at Long Lane Pond in St. Thomas. in Franklin County, Pennsylvania Thursday, according to NPR and CBS21.
Although flamingos live in Florida, the birds make up less than one percent of the world’s flamingo population after they were hunted to near extinction in the early 1900s, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says.
Swick told NPR the birds were likely in the Yucatan Peninsula – which separates the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea – or going to Cuba when the hurricane hit them, causing them to fly with the winds instead of fighting them.
After a similar situation in 2019 from Hurricane Barry, the flamingos were able to eventually make their way home, Swick said.
“They kind of hung around there for a little while, and then eventually started making their way back,” Swick said. “I think the flamingos are likely to start heading towards the coast, whether or not they know which direction to go, I don’t know. Birds are capable of things that we cannot imagine.”
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Flamingos? In Pennsylvania? They were blown off course by hurricane, reports say
- Published: Sep. 10, 2023, 8:44 a.m.
Pink flamingos have been spotted significantly farther north that what is considered normal.
And no, we’re not talking about plastic flamingos to decorate your summer lawn.
Flamingos – blown off course by Hurricane Idalia – have been seen in Franklin County in central Pennsylvania.
Sightings also have been reported in Florida, Ohio, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas and Kentucky. according to NPR.
Birds getting caught in hurricanes is “a fairly common phenomenon,” according to American Birding Association Digital Communications Manager Nate Swick, but not for flamingos, he told NPR.
“We’re seeing flamingos all over the place. We’re seeing them in places that we didn’t expect them,” Swick said. “Once the pair of birds were found in southern Ohio, sort of everything kind of broke loose.”
Wednesday’s flamingo pair in Ohio was the northernmost sighting until a different pair of flamingos was spotted at Long Lane Pond in St. Thomas. in Franklin County, Pennsylvania Thursday, according to NPR and CBS21.
Although flamingos live in Florida, the birds make up less than one percent of the world’s flamingo population after they were hunted to near extinction in the early 1900s, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says.
Swick told NPR the birds were likely in the Yucatan Peninsula – which separates the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea – or going to Cuba when the hurricane hit them, causing them to fly with the winds instead of fighting them.
After a similar situation in 2019 from Hurricane Barry, the flamingos were able to eventually make their way home, Swick said.
“They kind of hung around there for a little while, and then eventually started making their way back,” Swick said. “I think the flamingos are likely to start heading towards the coast, whether or not they know which direction to go, I don’t know. Birds are capable of things that we cannot imagine.”
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Flamingos? In Pennsylvania? They were blown off course by hurricane, reports say
The birds were seen in Franklin County after a hurricane moved through the southeast United States, according to reports.
www.lehighvalleylive.com
