Editing Flamingo (section)

==Status and conservation==
{{See also|List of Phoenicopteriformes by population}}

===In captivity===
[[File:Pink Flamingos on the grass.jpg|thumb|Flamingos at Paradise Park, a zoo in Cornwall]]

The first flamingo hatched in a European zoo was a [[Chilean flamingo]] at [[Zoo Basel]] in Switzerland in 1958. Since then, over 389 flamingos have grown up in Basel and been distributed to other zoos around the globe.<ref>{{cite news |trans-title=Zolli celebrates 50 years of flamingo breeding and science |title=Zolli feiert 50 Jahre Flamingozucht und Flamingosforschung |language=de |newspaper=Basler Zeitung |date=13 August 2008 |url=http://bazonline.ch/basel/dossier/zoo-basel/Zolli-feiert-50-Jahre-Flamingozucht-und-Flamingosforschung/story/26419827 |access-date=21 March 2010}}</ref>

[[Greater (flamingo)|Greater]], a [[greater flamingo]] who was at least 83 years old and believed to be the oldest in the world, died at the [[Adelaide Zoo]] in [[Australia]] in January 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fedorowytsch |first=Tom |title=Flamingo believed to be world's oldest dies at Adelaide Zoo aged 83 |date=31 January 2014 |publisher=ABC Radio Australia |url=http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-01-31/flamingo-believed-to-be-worlds-oldest-dies-at-adelaide-zoo-aged-83/1257422 |access-date=31 January 2014}}</ref>

Zoos have used mirrors to improve flamingo breeding behaviour. The mirrors are thought to give the flamingos the impression that they are in a larger flock than they actually are.<ref>{{cite news |title=Colchester Zoo use mirrors to help flamingos to breed |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/essex/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8854000/8854531.stm |work=BBC News|date=26 July 2010 |access-date=13 July 2020}}</ref>