ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Tuesday, June 23, is National Pink Flamingo Day \u2014 celebrating Florida\u2019s unofficial mascot.<\/p>\n
Discovery Cove is one place in Florida where guests can get up-close to the beloved birds. The day resort has Caribbean Flamingos. \u201cThey all have their fun personalities,\u201d zoologist specialist Jennifer O\u2019Neill says.
\nThe habitat is called Flamingo Point. Until a few years ago, the flamingos only made brief appearances during morning walks through the resort. But now, this dedicated oasis allows park guests to observe the birds swimming, playing and nesting \u2014 all day long.
\nO\u2019Neill gets to share fun facts with curious onlookers. \u201c(Flamingos) have 19 bones in their neck, so that allows them to sleep in really crazy, different positions,\u201d she says. Regarding their vibrant pink color, O\u2019Neill says, \u201cThey get their coloration by what they eat, so they\u2019re going to eat different types of small crustaceans.\u201d She says it takes about two years to get their full coloration and height.
\nIf you want to get even closer to the birds, guests can partake in\u00a0Flamingo Mingle<\/a>. That means you can step inside the habitat and feed the birds and interact with aviculturists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Tuesday, June 23, is National Pink Flamingo Day \u2014 celebrating Florida\u2019s unofficial mascot. Discovery Cove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4093,8274,104,115,4094,7149,139,141,140,135],"class_list":["post-317351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-allison-walker","tag-app-latest-entertainment-stories","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}