Flamingo Question

[JoCannon]

There was a BBC documentary years ago about flamingos.... The young flamingos had to learn to fly before their legs got weighed down with too much clay from the swamp... not all of them made it and some ended up earth-bound with great chunks of clay set around their ankles. It was heartbreaking. All the other adult flamingos flew/walked off to migrate and left the baby flamingos behind, shackled.

There were a lot of gratuitous shots of the solitary baby flamingos, slowly wading though the mud, with big buoys of clay on their sticky legs... slowly dying.
BUT at the end of the documentary, the TV crew popped one particular baby flamingo onto the back of their van, cleaned its legs and reunited it with the other flamingos. It was such an amazing sight seeing this little flamingo zooming across the sand in the back of a truck, looking around in awe.
Did anyone see it? Do you know where I could get a copy of it? It was a good 10 years ago, and it was on the BBC.

[Rabelais]

It is salt that build up on their legs and I think you'll find the clip in question here

http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Phoenicopterus_m inor/more_moving_images3.html

[JoCannon]

Thank you So much Rabelais, I have had a quick peek, looks very promising. Thanks again.

[veritymoon]

i remember that its never left my mind its was so distressing to watch i remember crying cant belive it was that long ago how time flys!