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The American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a large species of flamingo native to the West Indies, northern South America (including the Galápagos Islands) and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is closely related to the greater flamingo and Chilean flamingo, and was formerly considered conspecific with the greater flamingo, but that treatment is ...
Florida’s government has long been on Team Flamingo — promoting them as the official symbol of the Florida Lotto since the 1980s. This flamingo-themed lotto has generated more than $45 billion ...
Flamingo is the southernmost headquarters of Everglades National Park, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.Flamingo is one of the two end points of the 99-mile (159-km) Wilderness Waterway (with another end point at Gulf Coast Visitor Center in the Everglades City), and the southern end of the only road (running 39.3 miles (63.2 km) [1]) through the park from Florida City.
On his skiff in Florida Bay, surveying a flock of 40 flamingos, Haydocy called the return of the birds a sign that Everglades restoration is working. “If we got nesting flamingos it would be ...
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).
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the American flamingo "is widely distributed throughout the Caribbean, with breeding populations found in Cuba, Mexico ...
American flamingos in South Florida. Bird species include the Peregrine falcon, [22] bald eagle, American flamingo, [23] crested caracara, snail kite, osprey, white and brown pelicans, sea gulls, whooping and sandhill cranes, roseate spoonbill, American white ibis, Florida scrub jay (state endemic), and others.
The typical range of the American flamingo is Florida and other Gulf Coast states as well as the Caribbean and northern South America. Debbie Gasper of Port Washington made the short trip to the ...