flamingo

LITFlamingos are pink because of carotenoids in their food (algae and brine shrimp), chiefly canthaxanthin and astaxanthin, deposited in their feathers. On a carotenoid-poor diet, captive birds fade toward white. Carotenoids absorb blue-green light, roughly 450–520 nm.

MODELA broad absorption band (centre 475 nm, my shape), scaled by diet over a white feather background, through CIE with Bradford. Honest result: a carotenoid band alone computes to salmon, an orange-leaning pink (≈579 nm), not a bluish pink, which is exactly what flamingo pink is. More pigment pushes toward orange-red. Nesting: a white feather core in the pink flock, then void. COMPUTEDMolar masses: astaxanthin C₄₀H₅₂O₄, canthaxanthin C₄₀H₅₂O₂.

diet carotenoid flock wades

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