An escaped flamingo who flew away from a Kansas zoo 17 years ago was spotted making its way through Texas in March.
Pink Floyd, the flamingo, was seen around Rhodes Point on March 25, and the bird’s return was shared on social media.
“Looks like Pink Floyd has returned from the ‘dark side of moon,'” the Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Coastal Fisheries team posted to Facebook. “Pink Floyd is a local Texas flamingo that escaped a Kansas zoo in 2005 and has been seen on the Texas coast for several years.”
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The flamingo, who escaped from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, has made various spring appearances in the area around Port Lavaca since 2018, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Escaped zoo flamingo, on the lam since 2005, spotted near Lavaca Bay by our Coastal crew.
The African Flamingo made its break from a Kansas zoo after keepers failed to clip its wings, and has been spotted in several states since. pic.twitter.com/zsoYBf48Aa
— TX Parks & Wildlife (@TPWDnews) June 25, 2018
Pink Floyd was one of two flamingos that escaped the facility during a 2005 storm, according to a report.
“The Gulf Coast is an excellent climate for flamingos, so Texas is a perfectly fine location for Flamingo 492 [Pink Floyd’s official label],” a spokesperson for the Sedgwick County Zoo said. “In order to keep flamingos safely housed at the zoo that they call home, it is standard practice to clip an area of feathers on each wing that keeps the flamingos from flying.”
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“In this case, a fluke occurred on a windy day that allowed this flamingo to fly away before his feathers were clipped,” the spokesperson added. “Immediate efforts to retrieve the bird were unsuccessful, and an ensuing storm allowed it to take flight and travel south where it has been ever since. At this point Sedgwick County Zoo is happy to let the flamingo enjoy its life in the wild – he’s clearly enjoying it down there.”
