Long-necked wading bird

Usage examples of flamingo.

Lake Mead, showing me how to bait hooks, and on my last day with him, when I was five, he took me to the Flamingo for breakfast and to the Moulin Rouge for lunch.

Round the white walls ran broad divans, also white, covered with prayer rugs from Bagdad, and large cushions, elaborately worked in dull gold and silver thread, with patterns of ibises and flamingoes in flight.

Craps table at the Flamingo for a while, had walked across the street to listen for patterns in the ringing and clattering of the slots at Caesars Palace, and then had written down a hundred consecutive numbers that came up on a Roulette wheel at the Mirage.

But on the open water birds waded, ancestors of flamingos and avocets, and huge water lilies rested languidly on the surface.

Ragged holograms of hula dancers swayed in the darkness, lifesize plastic flamingoes stood among the trees, and a number of naked and half-naked couples were making love on the Astroturf, apparently unconcerned about who might be watching them.

Christmas, Madalina came to Miami Beach to play in the Rolex International Tennis Championships at Flamingo Park.

Or it might be birds that caught my attention: pink flamingoes or black swans or one-wattled cassowaries, or something smaller, silver diamond doves, Cape glossy starlings, peach-faced lovebirds, Nanday conures, orange-fronted parakeets.

The heat increased, and Griff did not relish the thought of emerging from the shade to the open country about the shallow salt lake, where the flamingos fished and water birds were thick.

A line of flamingos etched across the sky, and they passed one of the weed-grown conch boats wallowing along, exchanging hails with the island fisherman.

The survivors were camping out on the highest point of the interior, the salt plain where the lake of the flamingos had existed a week or so ago.

He continued to climb over the sun-heated rock toward the salt-floored basin, where the lake of the flamingos had once rippled.

There were hand-painted flamingos in different colors on each lime green door.

Closer to the mainland, at a place called Snake Bight, lives a flock of rare wild flamingos, pink and skittish confetti in the mangroves.

Two giggling flamingos, one fair-skinned, the other light olive, test the water with one toe each.

After Bill House went away, after the Frenchman died and the Hamiltons left to spend a year down to Flamingo, we never saw another boat along our river.