IN PICTURES: Scotland’s first flamingo chick of 2019

A Chilean flamingo chick being hand-reared by Mark Haillay and Owen Joiner at Bird Gardens Scotland at Oxton is the first to be born in Scotland this year.
Four-day-old Chilean flamingo chick being hand reared by Mark Haillay and Owen Joiner at Bird Gardens Scotland.Four-day-old Chilean flamingo chick being hand reared by Mark Haillay and Owen Joiner at Bird Gardens Scotland.
Four-day-old Chilean flamingo chick being hand reared by Mark Haillay and Owen Joiner at Bird Gardens Scotland.

The fluffy four-day-old bird, yet to be sexed, weighed just 52 grams when it hatched on Friday...and photographer Katielee Arrowsmith captured these adorable shots...

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