Pink patrol

Various types of flamingo are found all over the world. But these odd-looking birds march to more or less the same beat whether patrolling an Andean salt flat, a Caribbean beach, or (as seen here) an East African wetland, combing the shallow waters for tasty stuff to slurp. Greater flamingos like these—you can tell them by their tall stature and light-colored bills with dark tips—are one of two species found here in Kenya. The other type? You guessed it: the lesser flamingo, which stands shorter, has a crimson-and-black bill, and prefers a diet of algae to the small fish and crustaceans hunted by its larger cousins.