Posted by: Rebecca Whitham, Communications
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Flamingo chicks hatch with a whitish, gray down and start to acquire their pink feathering at about 1 year of age, though it can still be mixed with gray-brown contour feathers until they are 2 to 3 years old.
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The chicks hatched on exhibit between August 31 and September 5 following a 29-day incubation period. To ensure a higher chance of survival, the chicks and parents have been relocated behind the scenes to a quieter off-exhibit nursery for rearing. As they get bigger and hardier, we will reintroduce them back out on exhibit and back into the flock.
Photos by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
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Our Chilean flamingos may be pretty in pink, but three recently hatched
chicks are wonderful in white as their downy feathers haven’t yet taken on that
classic blushed shade.
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Flamingo chicks hatch with a whitish, gray down and start to acquire their pink feathering at about 1 year of age, though it can still be mixed with gray-brown contour feathers until they are 2 to 3 years old.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSKI4KGD7zfalNTUae4_0yy2PVKTsKGqdRI_JFZluwa4TKb9C3zq7QAvLrxB5w_eHjY1-TfGxPFPgFKe73s9QJs7khd2rlDr9Z0qatIJ85GxtYTglKqQtlk_VEstCxdMEmhvo9uPXHxCPB/s1600/_MG_4312+copy_stamp.jpg)
The chicks hatched on exhibit between August 31 and September 5 following a 29-day incubation period. To ensure a higher chance of survival, the chicks and parents have been relocated behind the scenes to a quieter off-exhibit nursery for rearing. As they get bigger and hardier, we will reintroduce them back out on exhibit and back into the flock.
Photos by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
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