Chilean flamingos fly past the Paine Massif, an eastern outcropping of the Andes Mountains in Torres Del Paine National Park. Below the towering peaks is the western edge of the Patagonian Desert in Chile. Despite the ‘desert’ designation, the Chilean portion is a large drainage basin for numerous glacier-fed lakes and rivers. These shallow waters are an ideal habitat for Chilean flamingos—they dip their comb-like bills into the water to filter out tasty plankton and algae.
Flamingos of the Chilean desert
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Lake Peipus, Estonia
-
The rainbow connection
-
National Love a Tree Day
-
‘Fringe’ takes center stage as Edinburgh celebrates the arts
-
Installation art turns heads
-
Dancers perform ‘Revelations’
-
30 years after Exxon Valdez
-
New Year’s Day in the land of the rising sun
-
Life in the slow lane
-
Glowworm caves in Australia
-
3, 2, 1 … Happy New Year!
-
Tokyo welcomes a futuristic new art museum
-
Chicagohenge
-
Alaska moose
-
Punakaiki on South Island, New Zealand
-
Birds of the Drömling
-
International Archaeology Day
-
Celebrating National Park Week, April 21-29
-
Summer huts in winter
-
What a twist