Flamingo flies the coop 紅鶴飛出籠 | 台北市立動物園資訊網

2007年2月4日—Flamingofliesthecoop紅鶴飛出籠.KeepersataBritishzooareinaflapaboutaflamingomissingsinceitwasblownawaybythestormsthat ...

Keepers at a British zoo are in a flap about a flamingo missing since it was blown away by the storms that battered Europe in mid-January.

Florence, a pink Chilean flamingo, was caught unaware by a sudden gust on January 15 and was blown clean out of Drusillas Park Zoo near the southeast English coast.

The flamingo was sucked into the air and dumped in a nearby field —and despite a number of sightings since, worried zookeepers have failed to recapture her.

Managers have offered annual membership and entry passes for the zoo for information leading to the safe recapture of Florence, who was born at the park in 2004.

But despite their best efforts, Florence — who has clipped wings — has so far managed to give them the slip.

“Its quite difficult to catch a flamingo as when shes been in open fields she can see the keepers approaching so shes been taking flight. Theyre t...