Greater Flamingo (Caribbean Flamingo, American Flamingo or Rosy Flamingo)(Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) - a wild Caribbean flamingo (band "HDNT") was banded as a juvenile at the Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve in the summer of 2005 and was probably carried by Hurricane Rita’s winds to Texas, where it spent a year and a half near Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Its other partner “an Old World Flamingo” joined him since January 2006. Nobody knows how these two birds ever got together in south Texas.

Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus) - European/African subspecies (band number "492") - escaped from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita on June 27, 2005.

During September/October of 2007 both birds spent some time in the lower Calcasieu Lake area, Louisiana.

Back to Texas - from early February through at least mid-March they were in the vicinity of Baffin Bay in Kennedy County.

April 12 in late evening - short stop at Bolivar Flats. What next?

Information about time spent in above places were collected from various internet sites and forum posts.