3-028-423 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Flamingoes' Nests, from "The Universe", 1870. Illustration 'from the book on "The Architecture of Birds"...[depicting] the nests of the Red Flamingo, which are built, on the ground, of coarsely tempered mud. These nests are curiously shaped, like a narrow truncated cone, about 20 in. high, with a basin at the top, in which the female lays two or three white eggs. In order to hatch the eggs by the warmth of her abdomen, she gets astride the nest, with one leg on each side of it, as shown in the attitude of the second bird'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.