Pingoes in the Camargue

Published on 12th May 2012

Ever since I was little, I’ve been calling flamingoes “pingoes”. I don’t even know why; probably a childhood thing of muddling up the name with their colour. Anyway, it was amazing to see wild ones for the first time in the lagoons in the Camargue region of southern France recently; the photos aren’t great, but the memory makes up for it.

Published

12th May 2012

Topics

bird, camargue, flamingo, France, nature, wild

Place/s

France

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Mum says:

12th May 2012 at 10:17 pm

It started with your sister when she was little and we saw some models of them at Crystal Palace

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