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Keepers are celebrating after the first flamingo chicks were born at a bird park for a decade.
The adorable pair hatched out at Birdland in Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds, and they could soon have company as another five eggs have been laid.
They are being cared for by doting adult flamingos who take turns to sit on nests fashioned out of mud and sticks on an island in the middle of a lake.
The greater flamingo is the most common and largest member of the flamingo family.
Fully grown adult male birds can measure 6ft and the typical lifespan for the bird in captivity is 60 years.
Pic: CotswoldHousePhotography/BNPS
Keepers are celebrating after the first flamingo chicks were born at a bird park for a decade.
The adorable pair hatched out at Birdland in Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds, and they could soon have company as another five eggs have been laid.
They are being cared for by doting adult flamingos who take turns to sit on nests fashioned out of mud and sticks on an island in the middle of a lake.
The greater flamingo is the most common and largest member of the flamingo family.
Fully grown adult male birds can measure 6ft and the typical lifespan for the bird in captivity is 60 years.
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