The adult bird, whose sex researchers have yet to determine, was floating in deep water, likely exhausted from flying a long distance with feathers that were getting waterlogged. Now the bright-pink bird is being tracked by a pair of researchers searching to see if wild, breeding populations may return to the state since they went locally extinct in the early 1900s. One of those fly-ins was “Peaches' who was found in deep water off Florida's Gulf Coast. The birds were spotted as far north as Lake Michigan beach, Wisconsin.
Days after Hurricane Idalia blew through Florida in August, people began sighting flamingos in unusual spots.