He told of the great lake-swamps, with their legions of birds, ibis, pelicans, swans, flamingos, herons, and storks-a world of long beaks and curved breasts and stilt-like legs and shrieking and beating of wings.
"The Great Hunger"
Johan Bojer
There are fowls also in abundance, as wild geese, ducks, pelicans, passea, flamingos, crows having a white band on their necks, small green birds, and various others unknown to us.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII."
Robert Kerr
Hither the phaeton bends his rapid flight, and flocks of rosy flamingos here defy the fowler's cunning.
"Wanderings in South America"
Charles Waterton