{"id":284459,"date":"2025-11-11T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:48:11","slug":"flamingo-missing-from-cornwall-park-appears-to-be-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284459\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo missing from Cornwall park appears to be in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762437852_658_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8805fdc0-be3a-11f0-a88c-ed8c3f6b1838.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Alice Beddows A young flamingo is standing in shallow waves.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Alice Beddows<\/p>\n<p>Paradise Park director Nick Reynolds said he hoped Frankie can find a colony of greater flamingos in southern France <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A flamingo that went missing from a wildlife sanctuary in Cornwall over a week ago appears to now be living in northern France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two photographs show a young flamingo on a beach in Treflez, Finistere, on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Frankie escaped from a walled garden at the park on Sunday 2 November, despite having clipped feathers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Paradise Park director Nick Reynolds said there was a colony of greater flamingos in southern France and &#8220;the best scenario would be that Frankie goes and finds them and lives out her life with them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762437852_658_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5e5795e0-be1e-11f0-96ab-8118be20a827.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Paradise Park Frankie is standing on a grassy lawn. She has a pink head, white neck and the feathers on her body are brown and white. She has a large white and black curved beak. \" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Paradise Park<\/p>\n<p>Mr Reynold said Frankie &#8220;is still our baby&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Reynolds said: &#8220;We&#8217;re pretty certain it is Frankie from the photos we&#8217;ve seen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;You can see the right wing has some feathers missing, which is where we would have cut her wings to keep her here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We&#8217;re just waiting for some more pictures to come through for better confirmation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Reynolds added it had been a &#8220;really difficult&#8221; week since the flamingo went missing but seeing the new photographs had been &#8220;lovely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762437852_658_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/92f31470-be3a-11f0-a88c-ed8c3f6b1838.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Alice Beddows A flamingo is flying over waves towards a sandy shoreline which has sand dunes leading to hills and trees.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Alice Beddows<\/p>\n<p>Mr Reynolds said the team was &#8220;waiting for some more pictures to come through for better confirmation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;She looks fit and well, which is brilliant,&#8221; Mr Reynolds said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He said it was well within a flamingo&#8217;s capabilities to fly that distance, albeit &#8220;not a small feat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He said the paperwork and complexities of bird flu regulations would make it challenging to rehome Frankie in the UK and he hoped that she found a flamingo colony in southern France.<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Frankie the flamingo spotted flying over Hayle estuary<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Frankie was born in July and was the first chick to hatch from her nest and be reared by her parents at the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Reynolds asked anyone who saw her to send photographs and locations to the team via the Paradise Park Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;She&#8217;s still our baby and we want to know what&#8217;s happening with her,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Beddows Paradise Park director Nick Reynolds said he hoped Frankie can find a colony of greater flamingos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-284459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}