snapped the image in Aruba after waking up at the break of dawn to visit a beach populated by flamingos. When he captured one of the birds contorting its long neck to scratch itself with its beak ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. A flamingo looks like a bird cooked up by an exuberant preschooler—absurdly long legs, knobby ankles (that look like ...