Early this month….(Pennsylvania Outdoor News):
[The above] two flamingos showed up at a pond, north of St. Thomas, in Franklin County, early September. Birders from various states headed to see these first-ever-reported wild flamingos in Pennsylvania. Birders from all over the eastern United States have been flocking to see the first-ever-reported wild flamingos in Pennsylvania. Avid birder John Carter, of Chambersburg, was the first person to spot them Sept. 7. “I am beyond words right now, on my lunch break I decided to check some local ponds for shorebirds, and wouldn’t you know I would find the first reported American Flamingos in the state of Pennsylvania,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Carter also reported his find on Cornell University’s eBird.
Hairless Joe
Right now they are a curiosity, but if they become the new “Barbie Geese” that will be a different story.
Seriously, if they do settle down in the Eastern US they’ll probably stop being pink. Their color, I have read, comes from the algae and microorganisms that they eat out West.
joe anon
Blown north by the Tropical Storm Ophelia, probably.
pigpen51
I live in Muskegon, Michigan, which is right on the west side of the state on Lake Michigan. Imagine my surprise when one summer day a few years ago, my wife and I were driving near Lake Michigan and spotted 2 Pelicans, sitting on the grass next to the road, maybe 40 yards back from the asphalt.
I have been to Florida a number of times, and have had a Pelican walk right up to me, begging for French Fries. But I had never in my life seen one any place other than Florida.
I am told that at one time, we had a fairly significant population of Piranha that stayed in the area near the huge power generating plant. It seems that they plant had a warm water discharge, and the fish were released by people from their aquariums, which found their way to the warm water, and thrived even with our sometimes very cold winters.
The plant, with it’s extremely tall smoke stack, has been demolished, so I am guessing that you can say the same thing about the hot water discharge.
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