Overview

• Officers were alerted Friday evening to a lone flamingo standing in the Titisee at Titisee-Neustadt.
• After consultations with specialists, police captured the bird and transported it to an animal emergency intake station.
• Animal welfare workers indicated the grey plumage showed it was a young bird.
• A presumed identification ring on the leg could not be read because it was underwater, leaving the bird’s origin unknown.
• Flamingos are not native to the Schwarzwald, though a small colony breeds at Zwillbrocker Venn in Germany’s Münsterland.