A flock of flamingos sit on a mud flat in Florida Bay on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The stately, pink birds have been occasional visitors to the Sunshine State in recent decades, usually in small ...

Then last summer, a flock of the rare and beautiful birds — a group is fittingly known as a “flamboyance” of flamingos — was blown to Florida on the fierce winds of Hurricane Idalia.

The flock is believed to be the largest one spotted in South Florida since 2014, when a group of 147 flamingos was observed in the northern part of the Everglades.

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Wading flamingos leave mud trails in the shallow coastal flats of the Everglades. The flock of some 125 birds was the largest seen in the Everglades in a decade.