Flamingo Reflection
by Luther Fine Art
Title
Flamingo Reflection
Artist
Luther Fine Art
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Pamela Briggs-Luther has created this flamingo scene ideal for home and/or office.
Beautiful flamingos grace tropical climates and add to the rich colors in that environment. These flamingos are at the St,Louis zoos, which claims to be the best zoo in the country.
Information about flamingos (phoenicopterus)
are a type of wading bird in the genus Phoenicopterus (from Greek: φοινικόπτερος, meaning "purple wing"), the only genus in the family Phoenicopteridae. There are four flamingo species in the Americas and two species in the Old World.
A wide variety of birds have been proposed as their closest relatives, on a wide variety of evidence. As a result, flamingos are generally placed in their own order.[citation needed]
Traditionally, the long-legged Ciconiiformes, probably a paraphyletic assemblage, have been considered the flamingos' closest relatives and the family was included in the order. Usually the ibises and spoonbills of the Threskiornithidae were considered their closest relatives within this order. Earlier genetic studies, such as those of Charles Sibley and colleagues, also supported this relationship.Relationships to the waterfowl were considered as well, especially as flamingos are parasitized by feather lice of the genus Anaticola, which are otherwise exclusively found on ducks and geese. The peculiar presbyornithids were used to argue for a close relationship between flamingos, waterfowl, and waders,but they are now known to be unequivocal waterfowl.
(source: Wikipedia)
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August 28th, 2013
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