Lesser Flamingos en Fuente de Piedra.

More on the Lesser Flamingos. Manolo Rendón, long-time friend and excellent person, apart from being director at Fuente de Piedra, has been in contact today and has given me the following information (below the photograph) and the photograph of Araceli's, for which I am most grateful. As can be easily seen, the Lessers stand out like the proverbial sore thumbs!


A pair of Lesser Flamingos is breeding in the Flamingo colony (Phoenicopterus roseus) at Fuente de Piedra Lagoon (photograph by Araceli Garrido). In previous months six Lesser Flamingos were counted and three pairs were prospecting in the colony (J. M. Ramírez, A. Garrido and M. Rendón-Martos).

Manolo has commented that in his opinion, and who am I to disagree with one of the top experts, that there was no breeding in 2007 and 2008 and that it seems most likely that the Lessers that were seen incubating had probably appropriated an abandoned egg and nest of a Greater Flamingo.