14 Flamboyant Flamingo Pictures to Print: Brighten Up Your Space

Explore an enchanting collection of vintage flamingo pictures to print, perfect for adding a tropical touch to your home decor.

Every summer, during my visits to my parents in the warm embrace of Southern Portugal, my father, a celebrated ornithologist and author, embarks on a birdwatching adventure with his grandsons. Their quest? To marvel at the beauty of wild flamingos.

These tropical birds, with their vibrant pink feathers and long legs, are captivating in the Salinas and lagoons of Ria Formosa Natural Park in the Algarve. They are easily spotted thanks to their bright colours and tendency to gather in large groups.

Originating from regions as diverse as the Americas and Africa to Southern Europe and Asia, flamingos are a symbol of beauty worldwide, known not just for their striking pink hue—a result of their diet—but also for their unique stance on one leg. This collection of flamingo illustrations and art prints celebrates the timeless appeal of these tropical birds, offering a delightful pop of colour and a dash of whimsical charm to any space.

Flamingos featured under F in the Pictural Alphabet of Birds.

Flamingo Fever: A Vibrant Collection for Your Gallery Wall

As we journey through the captivating world of vintage flamingo illustrations and art, let’s embrace the “flamingo fever” that has swept through interior design trends.

These free flamingo printables, showcasing everything from serene pink sunsets with palm trees to groups of flamingos against a tropical island backdrop, are perfect for anyone looking to inject a vibrant splash of colour into their living space.

Whether it’s for a flamingo-themed birthday party, decorative art for a child’s room, or a chic addition to your gallery wall, these illustrations are a testament to the timeless beauty and charm of the Caribbean flamingo.

So, adorn your home with these exquisite pieces of flamingo wall art and let these tropical birds’ bright colours and elegant silhouettes transform your decor into a haven of tropical bliss.

Vintage Flamingo Pictures To Print

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1. Audubon’s American Flamingo Painting

This famous art print of a flamingo and has been featured on many interior walls.  I even have had some paper napkins with this flamingo painting printed on them.

The painting is by John James Audubon and features in his book of gorgeous bird illustrations, “The Birds of America”. This seminal natural history book was printed between 1827 and 1838 and contained 435 life-size watercolours of North American birds.

The American Flamingo is the only species of flamingo found in North America. As well as Southern Florida, the bird is located in South and Central America, the Caribbean, and as far south as the Galapagos Islands.

You will find some Audubon owl drawings and pelican print here.

2. Lesser Flamingo Painting

The lesser flamingo lives up to its name, as it’s the smallest of all the flamingo species. However, this flamingo is still tall relative to other bird species. The Lesser Flamingo is probably one of the most common species of flamingo and can be found in sub-Saharan Africa and India.

This painting is from the French Ornothological book “Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux” (New collection of colored boards of birds) published in 1838.

3. James’s Flamingo Art Print

A vintage flamingo art print from the collection of the Zoological Society London, it was painted in 1886 by John Gerrard Keulemans.

James’s flamingos are very much South American flamingos. The bird’s habitat is the Andean plateaus of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. It is named after the British naturalist Harry Berkley James. This is an endangered species of flamingo and was thought to have been extinct until a remote population was discovered in 1956.

4. Chilean Flamingo Art Prints 1849

This flamingo from South America is similar in size and closely related to the American and Greater flamingos. Chile’s toughest bird, the pink flamingo, is the most noticeable animal in the barren Atacama Desert. These flamingos are easy to see against the desert’s moon-like scenery, with greenish saltwater lakes, shimmering salt flats with heat waves, and mountains with snow on top.

This flamingo art print is from “The genera of birds: comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of each genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera, v. 3″, published in 1849 by George Robert Gray.

5. Greater Flamingo In Flight

The Greater Flamingo is the largest of all the flamingo species hence its name. This is the most common species of flamingos and the ones that I spot on the salt-pans of the Portuguese Algarve.

A lovely vintage painting of the Greater Flamingo in flight, from “Ornithologia neerlandica. De vogels van Nederland” printed in 1922.

There is a wonderful image of a greater flamingo on the tropical bird cigarette card illustrations on Pictureboxblue.

6. Greater Flamingo Feeding Painting

Another fabulous flamingo painting this one of greater flamingos feeding. ”
Using its feet, the bird stirs up the mud, then sucks water through its bill and filters out small shrimp, seeds, blue-green algae, microscopic organisms, and mollusks .”

This print is from “Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands, v. 7” by J.G. Keulemans.

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7. American Flamingo – 1792

This fabulous vintage flamingo painting is from 1792.

8. Pair of American Flamingos

A pair of American flamingos from “The Birds of North America” (1903) by Chapman and Bell. The male and female flamingo mating pair build a nest together, and both sit on the egg while it incubates for about a month.

9. American Flaming 1821

A brightly coloured American Flamingo from “The General History of Birds” (1821), by John Latham.

10. Pair of American Flamingos 1948

A beautiful piece of flamingo artwork. They show a pair of flamingos feeding at night with a full moon. The birds almost look like they are on another planet.

The flamingo art print is from the book “Adventures with animals and plants” (1948) by Elsbeth Kroeber.

11. Flock of Greater Flamingos

There are several collective nouns for a flock of flamingos. They are called names such as a stand, colony, regiment, or flamboyance. Flamboyance is my favourite term. I think it describes a flock of flamingos so aptly.

Both flamingo and flamboyance come from words referring to fire. Flamingo comes from the Spanish and Portuguese flamengo, meaning “flame-coloured.” Flamboyance comes from French, meaning “to flame” or “flair.”

This flamingo painting is from “The Avicultural magazine” 1913.

12. Greater flamingo Picture

African flamingo painting by Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777 – 1786.

13. Three Flamingos near a Basin, August Allebé, 1872

August Allebé produced this worked-up drawing on the basis of sketches he had made on the spot in the zoo. He used a surprising palette of bright and natural colours. In his early work he favoured dark brown and red tints. 

Print 14: Joris Hoefnagel Flamingo

A flamingo with a spoonbill crane from the Air Element collection of bird prints by Joris Hoefnagel.

Other Vintage Bird Prints

Another vintage flamingo print is in the Mark Catesby American Flora & Fauna print collection.

For more wonderful bird illustrations, check out the dodo drawings on Pictureboxblue.

If you liked these fabulous flamboyant flamingo art prints, you should check out these other collections of bird paintings.

• Ostrich Art Prints
• Heron Prints
• Vintage Pelican Prints
• The Amazing Parrot Paintings of Edward Lear
• Beautiful Collection of Toucan Paintings
• Beautiful Images of American Songbirds
• Vintage hummingbird prints

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