Flattening the curve isn’t the only positive take away from humans staying indoors. With much fewer people in sight, there have been several reports of animals taking over towns and venturing to urban areas they would usually steer clear of. But this weekend, Mumbai was in for a special treat—a larger-than-usual flamboyance of migratory pink flamingos at the creek in Navi Mumbai.

Thousands of flamingos migrate to Mumbai every year between the months of October and March before flying out around June. They arrive from the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat and Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan, some even from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Israel. The Navi Mumbai creek and the backwaters are where these migratory birds usually gather, but the number of flamingos that arrived this year appears to be far larger than the usual flock. (A census by the Bombay Natural History Society in January 2019 had counted 1,21,000 flamingos in Mumbai then.)

Besides the Navi Mumbai creek, environmentalists have noticed a huge flock of flamingos at Thane Creek, Uran, Panju Island and Vasai, as well. According to Nathuram Kokare of Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary, residents are spotting an unusually large number of flamingos around Mumbai because of “less polluted water and air” and “improvement in the quality of the algae”, their primary food.

Here’s a peek at the flamingos in all their pink glory: