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    • Phoenicopterus ruber
  • French
    • flamant rose
  • Spanish
    • Flamenco americano
  • English
    • American Flamingo

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Recent Observations

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Observer

godutchbaby

Date

Jul 29, 2007 04:15 AM PDT

Description

Galapagos Flamingo:

Phoenicopterus ruber glyphorhynchus

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Photos

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What

American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber

Observer

joelkabraham

Date

the past
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Photos

What

American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber

Observer

sea-kangaroo

Date

May 17, 2008

Description

A whole bunch scattered about, feeding on gnats on the shore or resting out in the salt lake.

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Description from Wikipedia

The American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a large species of flamingo closely related to the Greater Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Greater Flamingo, but that treatment is now widely viewed (e.g. by the American and British Ornithologists' Unions) as incorrect due to a lack of evidence. It has also been known as the Caribbean Flamingo, but the species' presence in the Galápagos makes that name problematic.

Source: BirdLife International (2011) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 31/07/2011.