📣WELCOME American flamingo chicks to our Zoo family! For the first time, the Zoo’s flamingos have nested and hatched fertilized eggs. Once flamingos find a mate, they will build a volcano-shaped mud cone as a nest. Flamingo pairs are monogamous; both parents help build the nest, where they lay a single egg that they then take turns incubating for about 28 days. Named for the Birmingham baseball team that provided the familiar red clay used in their habitat, flamingo chick “Baron” hatched in the