Chilean Flamingo
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| Chilean Flamingo Conservation status: Lower risk (nt) | ||||||||||||||
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| 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).fr:Flamant du Chili nl:Chileense flamingo