head under the water and digging with its beak in the bottom of the reservoir. This crown of the birds is almost touching the bottom, the upper jaw is at the bottom and the bottom - at the top. The flamingo drink fresh water during the rain, licking the cascading drops down their feathering. Their nests have the shape of conical towers that birds shovel out in mud and plaster. They lay 1-3 eggs, which are white with very faint olive-green, oval elongated, with pointed ends, the size of an ordinary chicken egg. We were told that hatching takes 30-32 days. To get out of the nest, flamingos have to tilt their head, and using the beak as a support they can straighten the legs. It was interesting to see the birds getting into the air: first bird runs in shallow water with long strides, swinging its wings, and then they continue walking a while on the water surface and finally the bird takes off into the air. Now it is uniformly flaps its wings, its body stretched out like a stick, the legs thrown back, the neck thrust forward. Birds, especially flying high, quickly disappear from sight, and the sense of reality begins to obscure, if not for the characteristic guffaw.