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Chilean Flamingo
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Chilean Flamingo
At the Adelaide
Zoo
At the Slimbridge
Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Phoenicopteriformes
Family:
Phoenicopteridae
Genus:
Phoenicopterus
Species:
P. chilensis
Binomial name
Phoenicopterus chilensis
Molina,
1782
The Chilean Flamingo
(Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a large species (110-130 cm) closely
related to Caribbean Flamingo and Greater Flamingo, with which it is sometimes
considered conspecific. This article follows the treatment in Ibis
(2002) 144 707-710.
It occurs in temperate South
America. Like all flamingos it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound.
The plumage is pinker than
the slightly larger Greater Flamingo, but less so than Caribbean Flamingo. It
can be differentiated from these species by its greyish legs with pink
"knees", and also by the larger amount of black on the bill (more
than half).
Group of
Chilean Flamingos at the Houston Zoo
References
- BirdLife International (2006). Phoenicopterus
chilensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006.
Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of
why this species is near threatened
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from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Flamingo"
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The Chilean Flamingo
(Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a large species (110-130 cm) closely
related to Caribbean Flamingo and Greater Flamingo, with which it is sometimes
considered conspecific. This article follows the treatment in Ibis
(2002) 144 707-710.
It occurs in temperate South
America. Like all flamingos it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound.
The plumage is pinker than
the slightly larger Greater Flamingo, but less so than Caribbean Flamingo. It
can be differentiated from these species by its greyish legs with pink
"knees", and also by the larger amount of black on the bill (more
than half).
Group of
Chilean Flamingos at the Houston Zoo
References
- BirdLife International (2006). Phoenicopterus
chilensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006.
Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of
why this species is near threatened
Retrieved
from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Flamingo"
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chilean_Flamingo&action=history
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html