Spotted on Bidwell Parkway, a flamboyance of 1,500 garden flamingos.

What?! Why?

Buffalo Olmsted Parks were hoping to break the Guinness World Record of longest line of garden flamingos — and they've succeeded! 

Out of the three attempts they were allowed, they beat it on the first try. There were 1,500 garden flamingos in a line that had to be touching. They chose 1,500 to celebrate 150 years of the parks.

Olmsted Parks adopted their own spelling of FLOmingos for Frederick Law Olmsted to further commemorate the special occasion.

And to make it even more perfect, the line of flamingos measured 2018 feet, a very serendipitous moment for everyone involved.  

 “The record category might sound odd, but it's always a great back story and usually a fantastic piece of imagery,” said Philip Robertson, the judicator for Guinness World Records.

“Flamingos are a kitschy kind of counter culture to landscape architecture and Frederick Law Olmsted was the father of landscape architecture," said Stephanie Crockett, the executive director of Buffalo Olmsted Parks. "We decided we would put these flamingos out in the parks randomly but then we learned that there was this Guinness Book of World Records opportunity so then we turned it into that.”

The flamingos are available to adopt: one for $10, two for $15 or two for free if you join the park conservancy. All the money raised goes into back the park system. All the unadopted flamingos will be recycled as a park bench or picnic table.