550 flamingos born for the first time in the Algarve By TPN/Lusa, in Algarve · 09-07-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments For the first time, a colony of flamingos has successfully nested in the Algarve, with 550 chicks being born in 880 nests. According to the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF), the birth of these juveniles in a colony of about 3,000 flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) in one of the saltpans of the Nature Reserve of the Castro Marim Marsh and Vila Real de Santo António, proves the successful nesting of this species in Portugal. According to the ICNF, this nesting and its positive result "may be confirmed next year and become a recurring situation, which would represent an important adaptation of the species to different conditions than those it has always had in the usual places, thus allowing the diversification of the nesting sites and the maintenance of the species population in the Mediterranean geographical area".