What are the odds that you will find a black flamingo in the world? what are the odds that it would be in Nigeria? prior to the 13th of October 2015 I had never seen a flamingo except on television. But when i did get to see one in Nigeria it was hard to miss. A flamingo is supposed to be pink but this one was black i couldn't believe it, I tried to take a picture but it was way too far away and the awful lens of my 5MP andriod device couldn't take a good picture( I regret not taking that picture none the less).
I asked the locals around about the bird but none of them seemed to know what I was referring to, the word flamingo wasn't something they were quite familiar with. My guess, is that they probably knew what it was but could only identify it by a different name something in the local language(Ibibio) perhaps.
When I got home, I decided to Google black flamingo and i realised that there had only ever been one sighting of a black flamingo in Cyprus in the year 2014. Indepent.co.uk even called it "the only black flamingo in the world" but I am saying that it isn't, I am saying that there are other black flamingoes out there, I am saying that i have spotted a black flamingo in Ikot Abasi Local government area in Akwa Ibom state of Nigeria.
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