Surprise in Palermo:5 pink flamingo chicks appear in the gardens of Palazzo d'Orleans

The little ones are the children of one of the couples present in the park of the headquarters of the Sicily Region which has now become the permanent home of about ten flamingos

PALERMO – Happy event in Gardens of the Palace of Orleans, seat of the presidency of the Sicily region to Palermo.This year too, the animal care staff were able to witness the birth of pink flamingo chicks (Phoenicopterus roseus).After more than forty days of hatching, some of the pairs that had laid gave birth to five young, which currently appear with gray plumage.The director of the facility reported this, Vincenzo Guella.

The flamingos have been present within the Gardens for several years and are part of a group made up of around ten individuals belonging to the Lauricella ornithological collection.It is not the first time that they have reproduced there, as well as other species considered threatened or endangered.All births, with the scientific support of the professor Mario Lo Valvo, head of the Applied Zoology Laboratory of the University of Palermo, are among the conservation programs and objectives carried out by the park management.

The pink flamingo, although present in some humid areas of Sicily, in the wild has begun to reproduce naturally on a regular basis on the island from 2015 to today, with success only in the oriented natural reserve Priolo salt pans, where there is a population estimated at a few hundred pairs.However, it is possible to observe these elegant birds all year round in the reserve Salt pans of Trapani and in that of Stagnone of Marsala.