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The greater flamingo is the tallest of the six different species of flamingos, standing at 3.9 to 4.7 feet (1.2 to 1.4 m) with a weight up to 7.7 pounds (3.5 kg), and the shortest flamingo species (the lesser) has a height of 2.6 feet (0.8 m) and weighs 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg).
In particular, flamingos have a trachea that is longer than its body length [48] with 330 cartilaginous rings. [49] As a result, they have a calculated dead space twice as high as another bird of the same size. [50] To compensate for the elongation, they usually breathe in deep, slow patterns. [38]
The greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the most widespread and largest species of the flamingo family. Common in the Old World, they are found in Northern (coastal) and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Subcontinent (south of the Himalayas), the Middle East, the Levant, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe.
Idalia likely responsible for first ever recorded sighting of a flamingo in Kentucky
Some 220 flamingos have been found dead in the province of Catamarca in northwestern Argentina due to an outbreak of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, an official told local media.
Illustration by J. G. Keulemans (1886) The James's flamingo is smaller than the Andean flamingo, and is about the same size as the Old World species, the lesser flamingo.A specimen of the bird was first collected by Charles Rahmer, who was on a collecting expedition sponsored by Harry Berkeley James, (1846–1892, a manager of a Chilean saltpetre mine born in Walsall, England) after whom the ...
A reported sighting of an American flamingo at Chapin Beach in Dennis on Sunday afternoon has set the Cape Cod birding world aflutter.
The Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a species of large flamingo at a height of 110–130 cm (43–51 in) closely related to the American flamingo and the greater flamingo, with which it was sometimes considered conspecific. [4] The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN.