Cotswold Wildlife Park’s first ever hand-reared Flamingo chicks

It’s been over eight years since Cotswold Wildlife Park‘s striking Chilean Flamingo colony last produced eggs. Despite plenty of displaying, nest-building and mating, no chicks appeared.

Flamingo eggs were donated to the collection (as part of the European Breeding Programme) and after twenty-six days in incubation, Mambo and Ringo eventually hatched. Keepers tended to the tiny fluffy chicks around-the-clock.

Watch Mambo and Ringo being hand-reared, taken on their first walk around the Park (to exercise those incredibly long legs) and the moment they recently joined their new colony on the Flamingo Lake.