TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — One of the largest flocks of American flamingos in the last decade was spotted in the Everglades recently, the South Florida Water Management District said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

“District staff spotted 125 American flamingos in the Everglades, which is the largest group of flamingos seen in South Florida in the last 10 years!” the post read.

Officials with the water management district said more flocks of flamingos have been spotted along the coastal Everglades and in stormwater treatment areas.

Avian ecologist and restoration scientist Mark Cook said he spotted the large flock late last month.

Cook said he was surveying the Florida Bay coastline for Wood Storks and Spoonbills when his helicopter pilot spotted two groups of birds. At first, he said he believed one of the groups was Roseate Spoonbills, but on a closer inspection, he realized they were flamingos.

“Unfortunately it’s almost impossible not to spook a large group of flamingos from a helicopter and they rapidly took flight,” Cook said in a Facebook post.

The flock is believed to be the largest one spotted in the South Florida area since 2014, when a group of 147 were seen in stormwater treatment area 2, which is in Palm Beach County.

“Flamingos are incredibly fast flyers and can travel large distances in a relatively short amount of time, so it wouldn’t be surprising for them to move throughout South Florida and even among the local Caribbean islands on a regular basis.”