Gay flamingos pick up chick
Mon May 21, 12:03 PM ET


LONDON (AFP) - A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned
chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British
conservation organisation said Monday.
Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even
chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.
But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an
unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests
was abandoned.
The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk
in their throats.
"Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to
steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they
wanted to rear them themselves," said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.
"They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last
week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them
surrogate parents."
Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.
"If there aren't enough females or they don't hit it off with them,
they will pair off with other males," she said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...P79c_MWM0F

carlos and fernando!

i've read about them before. this will actually be their 3rd or 4th generation of offspring they will have raised.

Be still my heart.... They've been together for six years. WOW.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk...5-410.html



Always warms my heart to find a species that can look beyond sexual orientation and skin color!
[Edited 5/22/07 16:43pm]

They were desperate to start a family????

ehuffnsd said:

so they abduct them?

they also want to get married but they have yet to find a parrot that will do the ceremony...

SlamGlam said:

Oh ha ha-

awww

SlamGlam said:

Not true....

noimageatall said:

you need to do your research that parrot is no longer licensed to officiate weddings in the UK.... he used to do fish weddings but was indited when he married a tuna to a Kentucky squirrel without a cross species permit and he lost his certificate.

SlamGlam said:

HA!! They're flying to Vegas for a quickie.

noimageatall said:

yeah but when they heard of the 60 quarantine they changed there mind... but there is breaking development.... coco.... an African gray owed by Elton john has agreed to preform the nuptials!

anyway...

i think it's marvelous.

I posted this story like 2 days ago...lol