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| Flamingo, Floreana Island (aka Santa
Maria). We arrived at a brackish interior lake just before sunset. There were
80 or 90 flamingos feeding. They kick up the muck and brine shrimp and strain it
through the baleen-like structures on their bills, using their thick tongues as pistons
five times a second. They are the same family as geese, and you can tell it because
they honk. Nikon F4, 300 mm f/2.8 Nikkor, 2x extender, f/5.6 (f/2.8 indicated), 1/30, Kodak Royal Gold 100. |