Two mysterious flamingos appear in South Bay

In 2018, CBS 8 shared the story of a flamingo spotted in the south bay, nobody knew where it came from. We had reached out to local animal organizations but they didn't know why the bird arrived in Imperial Beach.
“My husband and I were on the bike path and we were like oh my gosh is that a flamingo?,” San Diego Resident Tammy Ascher said.
Now, the mystery deepens with the arrival of flamingo number two. Years later, the new flamingo is hanging out with the original one by the same location, along Silver Strand Boulevard.
‘Floyd and Flo’ are some of the names people are calling the pair.
“It's just amazing. I'm glad they're here and whether they are migrating through the estuary or what but yeah it's a blessing to see them,” San Diego Visitor, Juan Segura said.
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[@user-dw1ls3rp1l]

Must have followed Google Maps.

[@AGDinCA]

That's nice that the first flamingo is no longer alone.

[@user-jc7jb3bu5s]

I let them go 2 weeks ago. they just made 2 much noise!

[@josephm40]

😂🤣

[@commanderbell1965]

Thanks for introducing Invasive Species

[@user-jc7jb3bu5s]

Lear to take a joke...@@commanderbell1965

[@memoriesofheaven5192]

They're only invasive if they're able to breed and overpopulate the specific environment. Nobody has identified the gender of these two flamingos. They're not invasive... yet.

[@pepeshadilay]

​@@commanderbell1965humans are the true invasive species.....our shores would be lined with beautiful wildlife if if weren't for ignorant humans like you

[@Whimsiio]

my bro is gonna colonize san diego

[@commanderbell1965]

Escaped from the zoo

[@memoriesofheaven5192]

Or from Palm Desert

[@ganon01ryanoutsen92]

Very interesting they came there

[@RuthAmezcua-rx9gp]

So lovely

[@CondorSkyGhost]

Very cool!

[@dinahadriana8758]

Wow 😮🦩🦩

[@Black-Butterfly-B1]

Even they want to move to Sunny SD🦩

[@anicialorenzo1271]

❤❤❤

[@memoriesofheaven5192]

Flamingos aren't naturally reddish-orange in color. The red-orange pigment comes from people feeding them certain types of algae and lots of shrimp. Flamingos have a natural light-pinkish color; therefore, these two flamingos were obviously dumped by their owners.

[@pepeshadilay]

They could have escaped.... sometimes when you clip a birds wings they can grow back and relearn to fly again

[@JeremiahDaluperit-by8tg]

There is an abundance of shrimp all over that area so they could have been there a while

[@sandramorey2529]

Mazeltov!Has anyone banded them?

[@parallelpost]

The bird is out, the borders are open. Funny how our CNN like local news is astonished that not one but two pink birds are now calling S.D. home. Wait til the bird starts doing snatch ing from Better Buzz every morning. Not gonna bee so wonderful then 😂

[@pepeshadilay]

Wow a bird...how amazing......

[@CondorSkyGhost]

Covert mission....

[@FloridaMan69.]

Japanese going to eat them

[@josephm40]

We love to eat whales and dolphins… NOT framingo!