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Desert Springs Baby Flamingo

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Real Estate Agent with California Lifestyle Realty DRE# 1780607

JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, located in Palm Desert, California, has welcomed a baby flamingo to the hotel’s large wildlife family.  The baby girl, born on August 5, is the newest member of the resort’s flamingo brood. 

JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa welcomed a baby  flamingo to the hotel’s large wildlife family

 

Desert Springs is currently home to 30 Chilean Flamingos, whose distinctive pink coloring is derived from their consumption of algae, shrimp, mollusks, and insect larvae.   The babies are actually born with a gray color to their feathers – quite a contrast to their pink parents! 

In addition to the flamingos, there’s a large selection of birds that make their home at Desert Springs.  The hotel lobby is home to 13 exotic birds, including two Guyana toucanets.  Desert Springs’s waterways are home to six species of ducks (including neck teals to black billed whistlers).  Each year Canadian Geese, Coots, Egrets, and Green Heron use the Desert Springs grounds as a resting stop along their annual migration. 

 

Desert Springs, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa
74855 Country Club Drive

Palm Desert, CA 92260
760-341-2211
888-538-9459
www.desertspringsresort.com

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Kathy Schowe   760.333.8886  California LifestyleRealty  California Lifestyle RealtySchowe Properties                                           

        

                  
                                   

Comments (6)

Lori Bowers
La Quinta, CA
The Lori Bowers Group

This is so amazing. The flamingos in the ponds as you drive into the Marriott Desert Springs resort put me in a different world. It is so lush and beautiful, just like a paradise.

Sep 30, 2010 06:19 AM
Li Read
Sea to Sky Premier Properties (Salt Spring) - Salt Spring Island, BC
Caring expertise...knowledge for you!

Very sweet!    Those Canadian birds are wise to stop off in your beautiful desert locale, too!

Sep 30, 2010 06:34 AM
Tony & Darcy Cannon
Aubrey and Associates Realty - Layton, UT
The C Team

Nice photos!  The baby flamingo is just so Cute!

Sep 30, 2010 06:59 AM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Kathy,

Those are adorable pictures of the baby flamingos.  They look like quite a contrast to the parents.  The desert has so many gorgeous birds, and I remember visiting the wildlife rescue in Palm Desert.  Those folks do an amazing job.

Sep 30, 2010 08:51 AM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

I've never seen a baby flamingo - that must be a real kick walking around that resort.  I'll have to put it on my bucket list when I'm over your way to play golf with you (ok more like take lessons from you)!!

Sep 30, 2010 09:28 AM
Not a real person
San Diego, CA

August 5 is a little late in the year to be having flamingos hatch. I wonder if it has something to do with the heat over there.

Oct 06, 2010 04:31 PM