[EBB Sightings] RE: Greater Flamingo at Coyote Hills

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Flamingoes have been seen around the South Bay for quite a while. But  
these have usually been IDed as Chilean Flamingo. Was the Coyote  
Hills bird definitely a Greater Flamingo? I have a distant photo of a  
group from Salt Pond 18 in the Alviso/Milpitas area from 1996 on my  
website . You can see from  
the HTML page name that I originally thought they were Greather  
Flamingoes. I enlarged the birds and some of the details are better  
illustrated.

Les
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On Oct 16, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Jim Scarff wrote:

> I saw this flamingo a couple of weeks ago. It stands out! The  
> ranger at
> Coyote Hills was quite familiar with it, and said that it was an  
> escapee
> from the days when MarineWorld Africa/USA was in Foster City.
> Jim Scarff

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Les
 
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On Oct 16, 2005, at 8:55 =
PM, Jim Scarff wrote:

I saw this flamingo a couple of weeks ago. It stands =
out! The ranger at
Coyote Hills was quite =
familiar with it, and said that it was an escapee
from the days when MarineWorld Africa/USA was in =
Foster City.

Jim =
Scarff
=

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