In winter, the 22-kilometre-long estuary of the Ría Celestún on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula attracts thousands of Caribbean flamingos, which congregate here to feed on the microscopic life in the ...

The Celestun Biosphere Reserve is one of the most beautiful places in the Yucatan, and one of the best places for birding in Mexico and all North America. In fact, the Celestun flamingos put this ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler—absurdly long legs, knobby ankles (that look like ...