Kicker: Flamingo vacation

NICK EICHER, HOST: Typically you find Pink Flamingos in warmer climes: Florida, the Caribbean. But here lately they’ve been spotted in other parts of the U.S., including Ohio:

JEANETTE WALKER: Pretty unusual. So that’s why we’re going to take that opportunity to try to catch a glimpse of them.

Jeanette Walker and her son took a couple of opportunities to catch a glimpse in a state park near Dayton in hopes of seeing a pink flamingo. Audio here from WCPO channel 9:

WALKER: We heard about the flamingos, so we wanted to see if we could spot them.

Scientists believe the flamingos ended up so far inland because of the Hurricane last month. They weren’t trying to get away from the storm, rather the storm blew them that far off course.

So Mary, what do you call a group of flamingos?

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Let’s see, there’s a gaggle of geese, so a flock of flamingos?

EICHER: Alliteration is the right idea … try a FLAMBOYANCE of flamingos.

REICHARD: Fantastic.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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