greater flamingo family (phoenicopterus roseus)

seems like one of the parents has had a problem with one of its legs in the past (fracture?)

This photo was taken in the Camargue, in southern France, where a most unbelievable thing happened in June this year. A professional film crew used an ultralight plane to fly over the flamingo colony (the only one in France!). This created a general panic among the breeding flamingos, and around 500 nests were destroyed or definitely abandoned, about 10 % of the entire colony! Simply disgusting. I hope the court case will find no excuses to these people. This type of behaviour is so far away from the ethics that we non-professional photographers respect.