Birds and Butterflies from The Victoria Butterfly Gardens in Canada

International Postcard Week

October 5-11, 2025

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Victoria Butterfly Gardens 

Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada

This postcard was postmarked in 2025.

A Flamingo from West Palm Beach, Florida

Having a great time at SunFest 2015
From The 2015 Ford Experience Tour.

This is a picture taken at SunFest and turned into a postcard.  Of course any decent Florida postcard would have a large pink flamingo on it!

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SunFest is a music and art festival held annually in the first week of May in West Palm Beach, Florida. It is the state's largest waterfront music and art festival and attracts more than 275,000 visitors.

A Flamingo with Braces on his Teeth

A flamingo with braces
We need to see if you're in the pink!
It's time for your Orthodontic check-up - Please call today
1989

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"In the Pink" means in very good health, physically and emotionally.

Pink Flamingos in Florida

Florida
Colorful flamingos nesting in tropical Florida.
1992

Flamingos Nesting

Flamingos Nesting at Hialeah Park, Miami, Florida
The unique feature of Hialeah Park is its great flock of flamingos.  These birds were imported from Cuba and South America and in 1939 for the first time, flamingos were raised to maturity in this country.  That first season 62 birds were hatched at Hialeah and this year there were almost on hundred.  The young birds are white and take on their pink coloring with maturity.  Flamingos are fed a mixture of boiled rice, dried shredded shrimp, grains and cod liver oil

This is postmarked in 1953.

Real and Cartoon Flamingos

On the right is a photo of real flamingos (the duck looks like it's been added to the postcard) and the left is a cartoon with a flamingo.
2007


This translations was sent to me ...

Flamingo offended the frog
And he will punished for that ( literary "And he will answer for that")
Animals shouldn't be offended
neither by birds, grown ups nor children

Tiffany Glass Window Art: Feeding the Flamingos

The Morse Museum is pleased to announce the opening of 'Quest of Beauty - Louis Comfort Tiffany's Life and Art' on November 6.  This special exhibition of more than 100 objects is a biographical presentation of Louis Comfort Tiffany's art, including paintings, leaded-glass windows, blown-glass vases, personal artifacts, archival photographs, and other works from the Morse Museum's comprehensive Tiffany collection.

Photo on front: Feeding the Flamingos window, c. 1892.  Leaded glass, Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company
2007

Flamingos in Florida with Sunglasses

Florida is the perfect vacation hot-spot.  Well known for its long sandy-white beaches, crystal-clear tropical waters, endless warmth and sunshine, and some of the most beautiful sunrise and sunsets.
2008

Pink Flamingos in Florida

Florida

Flamingos are social creatures, often living and breeding in large colonies.
Their most distinctive features are long legs and pink color.
2008

Vogelpark (Weltvogelpark) Walsrode (Bird Park) in Germany

Vogelpark Walsrode (Walsrode Bird Park)

The sender writes that this bird park is one of the worlds largest with over 4,000 birds.

This sounds like a fun place to spend the afternoon  :-)
2008

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Weltvogelpark Walsrode (The name changed in 2010) is the largest bird park in the world in terms of species as well as land area. It covers 24 hectares (59 acres) and houses some 4,200 birds of over 675 species from every continent and climatic zone in the world. 

Birds of the Bahamas

Birds of the Bahamas

1. Red-legged Thrush
2. Kirtland's Warbler
3. Bahama Woodstar
4. Cuban Grassquit
5. White-cheeked Pintail
6. Bahama Mockingbird
7. (National Bird) Greater Flamingo
8. Green Heron
9. Bananaquit
10. Bahama Parrot

2008

A Flamingo in Florida

Florida Flamingo
2009

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Every flamingo does not nest every year. When they do nest, they typically lay one large, white egg. The nest is built of mud, small stones, and feathers on the ground and is in the shape of a volcano. Mounds can be as high as 30 cm (12 in.). It can take a pair of flamingos up to six weeks to build their nest. Both parents will take turns incubating the egg for 26 to 31 days.
Newly hatched chicks have gray or white down feathers and a straight red bill. In these large colonies, parents can recognize their own chicks by their vocalizations (voice).

What do nestling flamingos eat?

Parent flamingos do not regurgitate food for their young the way most birds do. They feed their nestling a liquid substance called 'crop milk', a secretion of the upper digestive tract stimulated by the hormone prolactin. Crop milk is dark red in color and very high in fat and protein and is produced by both male and female birds.

Flamingo from Lion Country Safari, Florida

Lion Country Safari

#8618 Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
Flamingos dine on small animals by suing their curiously shaped bills to strain them from the mud.  Ranked among the top zoos in the nation, Bush Gardens maintains a strong commitment to wildlife preservation.

(error postcard - this is not from Bush Gardens - it was bought at Lion Country Safari - however this company sells the same cards to different zoos around the country, they only change the words on them, so I think they changed the front, but forgot to change the back) (**Update: I contacted Lion Country Safari, and yes, this is an error, they sent the rest of the cards back and ordered new ones :)

Photographer - Bob French

unused, bought in 2013

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Lion Country Safari is a drive-through safari park located in Loxahatchee (near West Palm Beach), in Palm Beach County, Florida. Founded in 1967, it claims to be the first 'cageless zoo' in the United States.
In 2009, USA Travel Guide named Lion Country the 3rd best zoo in the nation.

Flamingoes and Nests at the Hialeah Race Course, Florida

Flamingos and Nests at Hialeah Race Course, Miami, Florida

The famous flock of flamingos at Hialeah Park is always a centre of interest to all visitors.  This family was recently increased by 62 young birds which were hatched and are being reared in this flock.  The scene illustrated shows adult birds and their mud and grass nests. Several eggs may be seen.
1918

Flamingos Feeding at the Hialeah Race Course

Flamingos Feeding at Hialeah Race Course
1952

NPCW - 2010, Americka, Crab with Violin and Bird

National Post Card Week
May 2-8, 2010

Amerika

unused, #25 of 100

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I can't figure this card out!  Was the crab playing the violin, then a flamingo decided to eat the crab?  It looks like the crab might have been drinking too - or is that a hot water bottle??  What ever is going on, I think it is a fantastik :) postcard!

Flamingo from the Bahamas, See-Through Postcard

Bahamas
Nassau / Paradise Island

The magnificent Pink Flamingo is the official bird of the Bahamas.  An endangered species, the birds were saved from extinction by the Bahamas National Trust.

The Unforgettable Postcard

made in 2010, bought in 2012 for $4.99

This is a plastic postcard that when held up to the light, you can see through the flamingo. It was made by a company called Cardwin.  According to their site the cards are produced on 'glass-clear' polycarbonate that is incredibly robust and waterproof.

Flamingos and Butterflies

This is such a beautiful postcard!!

Flamingo's Butterflies, Flowers, and Waterfalls.  I love that the Flamingo's make a heart when they are together.
2011

Flamingos from the Antwerpen Zoo in Belgium

Zoo Antwerpen (in Belgium)
Planckendael

Take a walk on the wold side
Wildlife photographer: Eric Wynen

Rode (Red) Flamingo
American Flamingo
2011