Flamingo parents feed their chicks with a vivid red ‘milk’ called crop milk or flamingo milk 🦩🤯 Although it looks like blood, it is actually just a liquid full of carotenoids, the same pigments that color a flamingo’s feathers. Both male and female flamingos produce this red “milk” to nourish their young until they are able to feed themselves. Via @fundacionbiodiversidad | Foodporn

Feeding crop milk to newly born pigeons #rollerpigeon | Sami Loft & FarmHouse

Pigeons, doves, flamingos, and even male emperor penguins produce a special nutrient-rich substance called crop milk to feed their chicks. Most bird parents feed their babies by partially digesting food and regurgitating it into the chick’s mouth. This makes the food soft and easy to swallo Songbird parents may visit the nest hundreds of times a day. Some species feed chicks every 10–15 minutes from sunrise to sunset. Even birds that eat seeds as adults often feed their chicks protein-rich insec