Such a picture allows observing the black primary and secondary flight feathers of the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus). Long and rigid, they enable the bird to cover stages of several hundred miles during its migratory flights. Thanks to the flapping of their large wingspan (up to 5.4 ft/1.65 m in males) wings, wide at the base and pointed at the tip, the flamingos fly at a top speed of 37.2 mph (60km/h) and reach Sardinia in a short overnight flight from Camargue.