The re-release of Flamingos (today) brings me pretty close to finishing the major SBRM bird set updates-- only Birds of Legend and Motherhood left to do. The Greater Flamingo is one of six species of flamingos and is distributed in southern and eastern Spain and southern France southward through northern, western and eastern Africa to South Africa and Madagascar, and eastward to Kazakhstan and through Middle East to India and Sri Lanka. It is partially migratory and highly dispersive. The Greater Flamingo is the most widespread Flamingo. The species nests in large dense colonies on mudflats or islands of large water bodies, occasionally also on bare rocky islands, with a distance between neighboring nests of between 20 and 50 cm. The nest is usually an inverted cone of hardened mud with a shallow depression on the top. It eats crustaceans (primarily brine shrimp (Artemia salina) which give it its pink color), mollusks, annelid worms, larval aquatic insects, small fish, adult terrestrial insects, the seeds or stolons of marsh grasses, algae, diatoms and decaying leaves. Flamingos ingest mud in order to extract organic matter (e.g. bacteria). In Ancient Rome, flamingo tongues were considered a delicacy.