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Phoenicopterus chilensis
Measuring 96-107cm and weighing about 2.3 kg. The female is about 10% smaller than the male. The inner third of the beak is pink, the rest black, while legs are pink with darker pink joints. The young are brownish gray.
Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego. In Brazil is in the south and southeast.
This specimens from the "Parque Zoológico de São Paulo"
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