As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Thursday 27 September 2018

Borders Chilean flamingo chicks a first for Scotland



KIRSTY SMYTH
Published: 18:57 Saturday 15 September 2018
The owners of a rare bird centre in the Borders have become the first people in Scotland to hand-rear flamingos. Mark Haillay and Owen Joiner of new Oxton visitor attraction, Bird Gardens Scotland, took delivery of nine flamingo eggs last month. Mark Haillay feeds a flamingling at Bird Gardens Scotland in Oxton. Laid by the established Chilean flamingo flock at Chester Zoo, the eggs, which take 30 days to develop, were incubated there before being carefully transported to Oxton to hatch. The two-week-old flaminglings are now being hand-reared by Owen and Mark in the centre’s baby barn. “It’s a special moment when you first hear a flamingo egg grunt, and you know that within 48 hours there will be a chick asleep, resting after its epic journey from inside the egg out into the world,” Mark said. “It’s incredibly exciting to think that these little balls of grey fluff will grow to be majestic flamingos.”

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