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A flamingo's beak is specially designed to filter food from the water.

In short, it is the tongue of a flamingo that acts like a pump to suck

in water and then expel it after filtering. The tongue of this bird

has ridged plates that can trap food particles .Once the food is

trapped by the tongue, the water is expelled from the beak

Tanks for your comments

Beautiful nature shot. Congrats.

Sweet shot Giangiorgio! Golden pond! TFS!

I like how this subject looks and the golden light that cover all this image is so pleasantly,large view shows very well nice details.

Splendida...caccia senza vittime!

A really beautiful shot with very nice lighting, Giangiorgio!

incantevole! la composizione, la definizione e la dinamica del colore sono perfetti

Great shot compositionally and helpful description.  I learned something new about flamingos from your paragraph.

-Lynne