19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
The Pink Mirror
Phoenicoparrus jamesi , most commonly known as James’s Flamingo , are one of the three species fund in south Bolivia. Flamingos get their pink colors because of the nutriments they’re live on, the Artemia, also known as brine shrimp, which contains a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin, and diatoms and other kind of unicellular microalgea.
Photo Detail
Date Taken: | 12.2019 |
Date Uploaded: | 08.2021 |
Photo Location: | Bolivia |
Camera: | Canon EOS-1D Mark IV |
Copyright: | © Olivier Boëls |