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Scarlet Ibis

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Known for its eye-popping red plumage, the scarlet ibis is a medium-sized wading bird often found near freshwater and brackish water marshes. Adult scarlet ibises have bright red feathers with black wingtips. Their head, neck, and underparts are pale pink. They have thin, curved bills and long pink legs with webbed feet. Immature birds are brown with a white belly and rump. As time progresses, they will begin producing scarlet feathers.

Here are the scarlet ibises at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.

Scarlet Ibis Profile

Scarlet Ibis Looking Down

Closer Look at Roseate Spoonbill

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Spoonbills, specifically the roseate spoonbill, are native to Florida and are common in coastal areas, marshes, and lagoons throughout the state. A roseate spoonbill is not a flamingo. While both are wading birds with bright pink plumage, they are not closely related. Roseate spoonbills are closely associated with ibises, pelicans, herons, and egrets.

Roseate Spoonbill Closeup

Roseate Spoonbill

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The roseate spoonbill is a social wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family. It is pink due to the carotenoid pigments it ingests from its diet of shrimp and other crustaceans. These pigments, which are also responsible for the color of many fruits and vegetables, are absorbed into the bird’s feathers, giving it its distinctive pink coloration. 

There is one sitting on the sign at Sylvan Heights Bird Park depicting that they are the residents of South America.

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbill on Sign

Magnolia Flower

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The magnolia flower symbolizes nobility, purity, perseverance, and dignity. In the United States, it’s often associated with luck and stability. The color of the magnolia also affects its symbolism: white typically represents purity, while pink symbolizes joy and innocence

Magnolia

“Albino” Horse

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We saw a distinctive horse at the barn at Churchill Downs. “Albino” horses are a color type of horse born white and have pink skin, but they are not true biological albinos. They have slim heads, muscular necks, compact bodies, sloping shoulders, muscular croup, and long tails. Their eyes are blue, dark, or light brown rather than pink. Their hooves are often weak, but they have flat, smooth gait.

Albino Horse

Blue Eye of a Horse

Japanese Anemone

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Japanese anemones, also known as windflowers, add a timeless grace to any late-summer or fall garden with their beautiful, nodding blooms on long, wiry stems. The foliage isn’t particularly interesting, but the flowers fill the midsummer-to-fall gap in gardens, appearing when few other perennials bloom. These perennials come in many shades of whites and pinks, with petals ranging from single rows to frilly doubles.

Japanese Anemone

White Japanese Anemone

Miltoniopsis Vexillaria Orchid

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Miltoniopsis vexillaria is a species of epiphytic orchid founded in isolated patches in the central mountain region of Colombia. It grows on the margins of mountain forests. The large, showy flowers may be pink, often with white margins on the segments, or they may be white, sometimes with a pink flush or pink stripes. Here are a few varieties at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, North Carolina.

Miltoniopsis vexillaria
Miltoniopsis vexillaria orchid

Pink Tradescantia Nanouk

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The Tradescantia Nanouk is an absolutely gorgeous plant with amazing bright green and purple/pink, slightly fuzzy leaves. While primarily prized for their foliage, you may be lucky enough to spot blooms on your Tradescantia Nanouk. Small star-shaped pink and white flowers may appear from mid-summer to early fall. Captured one at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden.

Rare Nanouk Pink

Colors of the Grand Canyon at Yellowstone

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What created the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone pink and yellow colors? Mineral stains mark the locations of hot springs and steam vents in the canyon walls. For thousands of years, upwardly percolating fluids have altered the chemistry of the rocks, turning them yellow, red, white, and pink.

Colors of the Grand Canyon

Flowers – Mountain Hydrangea

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Mountain Hydrangea lives up to its name. It shares the showy blooms and beautiful pink or purple color of big-leaf hydrangeas, but because it grows wild on the chilly mountain tops instead of the mild seaside, it naturally developed substantially better cold tolerance. The sturdy lacecap blooms will be bright pink or deep purple-blue, depending on your soil pH, and the handsome dark green foliage resists wilting. Found these in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

Mountain Hydrangea