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How do flamingos get their prey?

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they use their long legs and webbed feet to stir up the bottom of the water. They then bury their bills, or even their entire heads, and suck up both mud and water to access the tasty morsels within. A flamingo's beak has a filterlike structure to remove food from the water before the liquid is expelled.

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