How do flamingos catch their prey?

Answer 1

Their bent bills allow them to feed on small organisms-plankton, tiny fish, fly larvae, the like. In muddy flats or shallow water, they use their long legs and webbed feet to stir up the bottom. 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.

~A paragraph from nationalgeographic.com

Answer 2

They catch the food by putting their heads down, putting their beaks in the water upside down, and using their beaks to extract spirulina, which are definitely not shrimp (they are blue-green algae--not even the same Kingdom). Flamingos do this using bristle-like structures in the mouth as a filter, opening and shutting their beaks very quickly to move the water in and out of the oral cavity (mouth)--the same way a baleen whale catches krill, which ARE little shrimps. Easy, but not simple.

They use their beak to catch shrimps out of the water. Easy.

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They eat a special algae that gives them their pink color (because it contains high amounts of carotenoids). The algae is named spirulina, which is renowned as a very healthy "whole food"nutritional supplement, and can be bought in health food stores.

Answer 3

They get their food by sticking their head in the ground almost using their beak as a drill and getting food from the ground,somtimes they stick they beak in water.

They eat by putting its head upside-down into the water looking backwards. It takes in water that is rich in tiny organisms and filters nutrients from the water with a comb-like organ on its tongue.

Answer 4

A flamingo feeds by scoopingits head under water backwards, withits head upside down. The tongue of the flamingopresses against the inside ofits bill toforce water out throughsmall openings in its bill calledlamellae. Shrimp and other small watercreatures and vegetation remain in its bill and are then swallowed.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

They feed with their beak.

Answer 7

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