- Andean flamingo - Wikipedia
This Andean flamingo is native to the wetlands of the high Andes mountain range from southern Peru to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile Andean flamingos are migratory, with the ability to travel up to 700 miles in one day
- Andean Flamingo: Why is it Endangered?
The Andean flamingo is confined to the mountains of South America – mostly in Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia As noted, it lives only above the 2,300-meter mark and below 5,000 meters, requiring alkaline lakes or salt lakes with shallow, diatom-rich water for survival
- The Endangered Andean Flamingo - 10,000 Birds
In fact, the Andean Flamingo is regarded as the world’s rarest flamingo The largest of the Andean flamingos is native to the wetlands and shallow alkaline lakes of the high Andes mountain range, from southern Perú to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile
- Andean Flamingo - Facts, Diet, Habitat Pictures on Animalia. bio
The Andean flamingo is the rarest flamingo in the world and one of the three flamingo species that inhabit the high Andes in South America The other two species are Chilean and James's flamingo The Andean flamingo has the typical elegant body shape, with a long curved neck and long legs
- Andean Flamingo - eBird
Rather local and declining; found at salt lakes and bogs in the high Andes Associates readily with Chilean and James’s Flamingos, although each species often stays slightly apart within mixed groups All plumages show clean-cut black triangle on closed wings, unlike other flamingos Adult has long bill “hook” and diagnostic yellow legs
- Andean Flamingo - U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The Andean flamingo is the largest member of the Phoenicopteridae family in South America, reaching an adult height of 3 5 feet (ft) (110 centimeters (cm)) (Fjelds [aring] and Krabbe 1990, p 86)
- Andean Flamingo Conservation - Midwest Center for Biodiversity Kent . . .
In particular, the Andean Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) is among the rarest of all flamingo species and listed as Vulnerable (i e , with a “high risk of endangerment in the wild”) by the IUCN Species Survival Commission
- Species Profile for Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus)
The Andean flamingo is the largest member of the Phoenicopteridae family in South America, reaching an adult height of 3 5 feet (ft) (110 centimeters (cm)) (Fjelds [aring] and Krabbe 1990, p 86)
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