If you see a live American Flamingo (phoenicopterus ruber) in Perkasie, call a zoo. In fact, most of the live flamingos in the US are either in zoos or escaped from them. The only pink Flamingos native to the area are the plastic variety. I included this plastic, pink Flamingo because our nextdoor neighbors (who provided the green and gray paints for the wall) requested a pink Flamingo. Painting the lawn ornament variety was the only way I felt I could include it in a “Birds of Perkasie” mural in good conscience. Plastic Flamingos are still regularly spotted in the Perkasie area. It was originally designed by Don Featherstone of Union Products in 1957. He won a Nobel Prize in Art for this in 1996, since it had become such a pop icon. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel, he said that he had been frustrated for years trying to sell fine art, so he decided to give people what they wanted with the plastic Flamingo: junk art. It was the biggest selling lawn ornament for decades. Now, it is being rivaled, but not replaced by the Garden Gnome.
Family: Flamingo
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