{"id":242155,"date":"2025-11-03T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242155\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:29:11","slug":"search-goes-on-for-naughty-teenager-flamingo-missing-from-hayle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242155\/","title":{"rendered":"Search goes on for &#8216;naughty teenager&#8217; flamingo missing from Hayle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761431770_428_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/346c5d40-b88a-11f0-bff7-1f4f269bf265.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Paradise Park A picture of the flamingo. It is a grey animal, with a long beak. It has a pink head. There is grassland in the background.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Paradise Park<\/p>\n<p>Frankie does not have the bright pink colourings many associate with flamingos<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The owner of a wildlife sanctuary said he and staff are &#8220;beside ourselves&#8221; with worry as they wait to hear of new sightings of a flamingo which has gone missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Frankie escaped from the walled garden at Paradise Park in Hayle, Cornwall, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c33pmd6v4m8o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on Sunday morning, despite having clipped feathers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The flamingo is the second one bred at the park and there have been a number of sightings, including in Porthtowan and at the RSPB&#8217;s Copperhouse Pool in Hayle &#8211; but she remains missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Park director Nick Reynolds said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think she knows what she&#8217;s looking for to be honest &#8211; she&#8217;s just like a naughty teenager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761431770_428_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/780ca000-b8da-11f0-9319-933e5d965188.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A blurry long-range shot of what is supposedly a flamingo flying.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Frankie the flamingo was reportedly sighted flying over an RSPB garden in Hayle on Sunday<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He said everyone at the park was &#8220;desperate&#8221; to hear if Frankie had been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We need to get her back as soon as possible, we are really beside ourselves to be honest,&#8221; Mr Reynolds said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy0w8dlyy1ko\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Frankie was hatched on 1 July<\/a> and is the first flamingo chick to hatch from its nest and be reared by is parents at the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;She has been such a star all summer,&#8221; Mr Reynolds added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Frankie has really made our year to be honest and everybody loves her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">There are 15 flamingos at the park, the only ones in Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Young flamingos are grey and slowly develop a pink colouring by consuming crop milk from their parents and eating types of algae, crustaceans and insect larvae.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Reynolds added Frankie could be at risk from foxes and &#8220;hopefully she found somewhere safe to stay last night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;If she&#8217;s in water then she&#8217;s OK but up on the land, you know it&#8217;s very worrying for us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Anyone who sees a flamingo in the area is asked to immediately contact Paradise Park and staff will attempt to rescue her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paradise Park Frankie does not have the bright pink colourings many associate with flamingos The owner of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-242155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}