![]() Even more impressively, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History added a pair of the pink birds, both authentified as vintage, in 1980. The BBC called our plastic-feathered friends a symbol of American optimism during the post-war era today, they’re considered the height of tackiness, forever retro.Īnd while some take umbrage at the very notion of the rose-feathered fowl as art, plastic flamingos nevertheless grace the gift shop of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Greater flamingos, on average, are the largest flamingo species in the world. S-curved necks are common in both species. Both have pink heavy pink bills with black tips in the end. The decidedly low-brow birds, once a sign of upwardly mobile aspirations, are now linked inexplicably to trailer parks. These two species have relatively small heads. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas (including the Caribbean), and two species native to Afro-Eurasia. ![]() Plastic pink flamingos have been embraced by gay men and swingers, but they’re also the official bird of Madison, Wisconsin (Madison, we hardly knew ye!). Flamingos or flamingoes a / flmoz / are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There’s the 1972 John Waters “Pink Flamingo” movie, of course, but a flamingo (named Featherstone-more on that shortly) also appears in Disney’s animated “Gnomeo & Juliet,” a very different movie. There’s no denying it: this outdoor decor icon is culturally (or at least sub-culturally) significant. ![]()
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