Tell me if I'm wrong the flamingos are flying?

I know that the Cassowary and the Ostrich and the Peacock and the King Penguin do not fly, while the Pink Flamingo does. So I said to myself why there are no birds like Pelicans or Cranes or Ducks because the Flamingo it flies. What do you think?
 
Flamingo's in Zoo's mostly don't fly, because their wings are shortened and they are unable to fly.

Animals that are kept in aviaries don't need their wings shortened though, which I'd rather see.
 
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They don't fly in the Game. I assume you mean their Jump Animation during which they use their Wings. I think the Peafowl are also doing this when they jump
 
I have seen Pelicans being kept outside aviaries as well as cranes. The only ducks I have seen outside aviaries are just wild ducks though. Pelicans and cranes could definitely be added without the need to make them fly.

Peacocks can fly irl, but they are not very good at it :p , this is true for most other Galliformes (chickens, pheasants, turkey...) as well. I would love to see some Guineafowl being added.
 
From my time volunteering at a zoo, I was told that it used to be common practice to pinion (surgically remove part of one wing) most open area birds, but that in more recent times it's only done for large groups of outdoor animals, like flamingos, because there are just too many animals to check on every single time they molt their feathers. Nowadays for animals like storks or cranes, they'll trim the feathers when the new ones are done growing in so the animal cannot fly away. The pelicans kept in outdoors in my old zoo were all rescues and could not fly anyway.
 
I've seen duck and geese species that are definitely not your normal, wild ducks (though those come down to visit too) in outdoor ponds at CA zoos. I am guessing they may snip their flight feathers after they molt, as Nenko said, if there aren't too many of them to keep up with.

I suppose with larger groups of outdoor birds, the need to keep up with the feather clipping each molt cycle might result in zookeepers forgetting to feed the animals and clean their cages or something, and suddenly there will be protesters all over the zoo ;)
 
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