A mother at 70

I had no idea flamingos lived this long. Amazing it was her first egg.

"A flamingo who was described as having been "unlucky in love" has laid her first egg at a nature reserve aged 70. Gertrude is part of a flamboyance of more than 65 flamingos at Pensthorpe nature reserve near Fakenham, Norfolk. The reserve is awaiting new arrivals of flaminglets, as many of the birds are currently sitting on their nests before their eggs hatch. Ben Marshall, the reserve's managing director, said: "Flamingos might live 40 years and Gertrude is 70, so [at] that ripe old age to be able to display [maternal] characteristics is amazing."