Bird watchers in a flurry over 'rare' incursion of wild flamingos blown into US from Hurricane Idalia
Bird enthusiasts are flocking to see an incredibly rare occurrence of flamingos popping up all over the Eastern U.S. after they were blown in by Hurricane Idalia. Bird enthusiasts are flocking to see flamboyances of flamingos popping up all over the Eastern U.S. after they were blown in by Hurricane Idalia. More than 150 of the pink wading birds have ended up in unlikely states like North and South Carolina, Virginia, and even Texas and Ohio, since Hurricane Idalia passed through the U.S. last week, experts told ABC News, describing the event as incredibly rare. Idalia is the type of storm that bird watchers get excited for, "because you never know what kind of species it will bring with it," Nate Swick, digital communications manager for the American Birding Association and host of the American Birding Podcast, told ABC News. Flamingo in Fort De Soto Park, South-southwest of St. Petersburg, Fla. on Sept. 2, 2023. Janelle LaFrance MORE: How animals at Florida zoos and wildlif...