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A four-month-old flamingo, which went missing earlier this month<\/a> from a wildlife park in Cornwall has now been discovered living in France<\/a>.<\/p>\n Frankie the flamingo, who was born in July, went missing from a walled garden at Paradise Park in Hayle, near St Ives, during the morning of Sunday 2 of November, despite having her feathers clipped on one of her wings. <\/p>\n After more than a week of worry for her keepers, photographs taken in Tr\u00e9flez, Brittany, reveal Frankie has flown south, and has made it to northern France. <\/p>\n Nick Reynolds, director of Paradise Park told The Independent: \u201cWe saw her at 7.30 in the morning. Then at 8.30 in the morning, I got a call saying \u2018we can\u2019t find the flamingo\u2019, and I came back to the park to find she wasn\u2019t there and we had no idea where she was.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe were pretty certain she\u2019d flown out, there couldn\u2019t have been any other scenarios really. She was inside our walled garden which has a 12-foot wall and aviaries built against that. So she\u2019s got herself up and over the top of that, which is quite surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Reynolds said that instead of pinioning the birds at the park\u2019s wings, which means they are permanently unable to fly, instead the feathers are clipped, but in this case Frankie\u2019s maturing feathers grew more quickly than anticipated. <\/p>\n \u201cWe just clip the wing. You clip one wing, and then obviously [for young birds] the feathers naturally fall out and new ones grow back. When they start growing back, they are in \u2018blood quill\u2019, so they have blood in the quill to grow the feather, so you have to be careful \u2013 you can\u2019t cut them too early, or you\u2019ll cut the blood quill. <\/p>\n \u201cSo she\u2019s grown them out, and got a bit of lift, and then she\u2019s gone out on the bit of wind we had last week.\u201d<\/p>\n After she escaped the park, there were numerous sightings of her flying away.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had many spottings of her locally down here,\u201d Mr Reynolds said. \u201cThen some pictures came up and showed a flamingo in France. We\u2019ve just had some new ones come in which are fantastic and we can definitely see the wing that we clipped, so we can definitely 100 per cent identify it as being Frankie.\u201d <\/p>\n Despite being \u201cdevastated\u201d that she is gone, Mr Reynolds said it looks like she won\u2019t be coming back unless she decides to fly home herself. <\/p>\n \u201cThe logistics of getting her back here would just be a non-starter,\u201d he said. \u201cFirstly you\u2019ve got to catch her in France. Secondly we\u2019d have to get the French to allow her to be taken into a quarantine facility and quarantined for 30 days. Then you\u2019d have to get export permits and import permits, health certificates, quarantine her [in the UK] for 30 days and then when she\u2019d got back to the park, after the external quarantine, it\u2019s another 30 days quarantine here. <\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s now classed as a wild bird, and with the bird flu situation at the moment, will the French allow all that? We don\u2019t think they will. If there was a chance we could do it, then yes, we would try. <\/p>\n \u201cIf she flew back to England it\u2019d be easier,\u201d he said, adding that chances of that happening were \u201cslim, because she\u2019s heading south, doing what she naturally would have done\u201d. <\/p>\n \u201cI am upset personally and all of our team are upset about it. We\u2019re not giving up on her and we\u2019re still asking for photographs, so we can see what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-257557","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\/257557","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=257557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}