Lincoln Park Zoo
LINCOLN PARK — The Lincoln Park Zoo hatched its first ever Chilean flamingo on Friday, zookeepers announced Thursday.
The first of several incubating flamingo eggs to hatch, the chick is receiving "around-the-clock care" and now weighs about as much as a bar of soap, they said.
Its feathers will be gray until it's about 2 years old, when it will grow to a little over three feet tall, according to zookeepers.
Once the chick learns to be "more independent," they said, it will be released into the flamingo flock on display at the zoo's Waterfowl Lagoon.
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