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Hello! Flamingos have thin long legs, a flexible neck and a feather, the color of which varies from white to red. Their special distinctive feature is a massive bowed down beak, through which they filter food from water or silt. coloring feathering flamingos attached to the coloring substances lipochromes, which the birds receive with food. In zoos, flamingos do not lose their unique coloring of plumage, as they are supplemented with various carotene-containing foods: grated carrots, sweet peppers and, most importantly, small crustaceans.Flamingos are common in Africa, the Caucasus (Azerbaijan), Southeast and Central Asia, and also in South and Central America.