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Pink Flamingo

Phoenicopterus ruber

Description:

The flamingo gets its pink colour from eating plankton.

3 Species ID Suggestions

Chilean Flamingo (Greater?)
Phoenicopterus chilensis
Flamingo
Phoenicopterus or Phoenicoparrus Flamingo
American Flamingo
Phoenicopterus ruber


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4 Comments

lmdang
lmdang 13 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions to narrow it down, birdlady and heather.

Thanks for the compliment, alice

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 13 years ago

A group of Flamingos is harder to see than one like this! Beautiful!

birdlady6000
birdlady6000 13 years ago

Sorry! I see that the spotting was on the Galapagos Islands so it was more likely an American Flamingo or Phoenicopterus ruber by the look of the wiki page!

HeatherMiller
HeatherMiller 13 years ago

There are 12 principal flight feathers located on each wing. These black feathers are visible when the wings are extended. http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/flamin...

lmdang
Spotted by
lmdang

Ecuador

Spotted on Apr 21, 2011
Submitted on Jun 18, 2011

Spotted for Mission

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