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Posted by Becky Smith on 12:27:10 08/09/10
In Reply to: Hialeah Flamingos posted by David Simpson
In 1931 Hialeah Park owner Joseph Widener imported 30 flamingos from Cuba to the race track infield. By the next morning the birds had flown away, never to be seen again. Widener tried again, this time clipping the wings of the next batch of flamingos from Cuba. They stayed, and in 1939 began breeding. Their descendants are there still.
According to two sources I have read, Widener imported flamingos annually until 1939, from Central and South America as well as Cuba. By 1940 the flock had grown to 450 birds.
For more, see Flame-feathered Flamingos of Florida, by W. A. Watts and W. F. Gerecke. In National Geographic, January 1941.
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