Flamingos in Literature
The best use of flamingos - or any animal - in all of literature takes place in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865), when Alice uses them to play croquet.
"The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing."
This is also the best use of hedgehogd.