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A photo of a Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis)
Chilean Flamingo

Chilean Flamingo

Phoenicopterus chilensis

The Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a species of large flamingo at 110–130 cm closely related to the American flamingo and the greater flamingo, with which it was sometimes considered conspecific. The species is listed as near threatened by the IUCN. It breeds in South America from Ecuador and Peru to Chile and Argentina and east to Brazil; it has been introduced into the Netherlands. Like all flamingos, it lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound. These flamingos are mainly restricted to salt lagoons and soda lakes but these areas are vulnerable to habitat loss and water pollution. The plumage is pinker than the slightly larger greater flamingo, but less so than the Caribbean flamingo. It can be differentiated from these species by its grayish legs with pink joints (tibiotarsal articulation), and also by the larger amount of black on the bill (more than half). Young chicks may have no sign of pink coloring whatsoever, but instead remain gray or peach.
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A photo of a Chilean Flamingo photographed in V36 United Kingdom
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Anthony Walker
Saturday 27 May 2023 - 11:47am
United Kingdom
A photo of a Chilean Flamingo photographed in Martin Mere WWT Reserve United Kingdom
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John Angell
Sunday 21 May 2023 - 12:10pm
United Kingdom
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Heather Lewinton
Monday 08 May 2023 - 1:34pm
United Kingdom
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Rosemarie Jones
Sunday 30 Apr 2023 - 1:13pm
United Kingdom
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