A video posted by the Coastal Fisheries Division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shows the fugitive flamingo wading into Cox Bay about 120 miles southwest of Houston.
Highlights
- Pink Floyd, a flamingo on the lam from a Kansas zoo since 2005, is seen again in Texas.
- A video shows the bird wading into Cox Bay near Port Lavaca, about 120 miles southwest of Houston.
- Pink Floyd fled from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan., in 2005.
- There have been other reported sightings of the bird in Arkansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin.
- Experts estimate that flamingos can live until about 30 in the wild, and flamingos live until age 30, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
- The bird is believed to be about 27 years old, and experts estimate it could live until 30.