MUD MOUNDS FOR NESTS.
The long,legged flamingoes nest in Northern. Africa. Hundreds >of them, live and nest together by the marshy shores of the sea, and their great, richly coloured plumage .makes their assembly a picturesque sight.
Curious as -flamingoes are in appearance, their nests are still more/extraordinary. They are merely mounds of mud, about a foot high, and are usually built by. a colony of the birds \ at intervals of three or four feet.
The nests are gradually raised year after year. ' Nesting takes. place this month, and the eggs are hatched after about four weeks.
Each flamingo lays only one egg as a rule, and the mother sits sedately on her curious nest with her legs folded tip under her.
Meanwhile, father flamingo wades in' the shallow water and fishes with his quaintly shaped bill, and he finds Ills long, slender neck very useful in helping him to snatch his prey.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 309, 31 December 1930, Page 15
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