23/45.- Camargue: Flamingoes

The marshlands and other lakes and lagunas along the French Mediterranean are the abode of flamingoes, whose colour varies from white through pink to orange depending on the species of shrimp and crayfish they feed on.  They are a strange sight when they take off in large flights: when their long necks and feet are stretched out in one direction, and their large wings in the other, their bodies seem to disappear.

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