Editing Chilean flamingo (section)

==In captivity==
The first flamingo hatched in a European zoo was a Chilean flamingo at [[Zoo Basel]] ([[Switzerland]]) in 1958.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://bazonline.ch/basel/dossier/zoo-basel/Zolli-feiert-50-Jahre-Flamingozucht-und-Flamingosforschung/story/26419827|title=Zoo celebrates 50 years of flamingo breeding and science|newspaper=Basler Zeitung|date=13 August 2008|access-date=21 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322081331/https://bazonline.ch/basel/dossier/zoo-basel/Zolli-feiert-50-Jahre-Flamingozucht-und-Flamingosforschung/story/26419827|archive-date=22 March 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1988, a Chilean flamingo that lived in the [[Tracy Aviary]] in [[Salt Lake City]], Utah, had mistakenly not received his routine wing clipping. The flamingo escaped,<ref name ="UtahBirdsDotOrg">{{Cite web|url=http://www.utahbirds.org/featarts/2004/UtahsPinkFloyd.htm|title=Pink Floyd - Utah's Chilean Flaningo|website=www.utahbirds.org}}</ref> and became a local legend in the greater Salt Lake area known as Pink Floyd the Flamingo. Pink Floyd came to Utah in the winters to eat the [[brine shrimp]] that live in the [[Great Salt Lake]], and flew north to Idaho and Montana in the spring and summer. Pink Floyd became a popular tourist attraction and local icon until his disappearance and presumed death<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660205853/Feeling-blue-about-Pink-Floyd.html?pg=all |title=Feeling Blue About Pink Floyd |newspaper=Deseret News |date=26 March 2007 |access-date=14 January 2016 |archive-date=4 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004221343/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/660205853/Feeling-blue-about-Pink-Floyd.html?pg=all |url-status=dead }}</ref> after he flew north to [[Idaho]] in the spring of 2005 and was never seen again.

Since there is such a decline in the numbers of this species, breeding programs have been implemented in zoos to offset the decline of the wild stock numbers.<ref name=":0" />