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Flamingos or flamingoes [a] (/ f l ə ˈ m ɪ ŋ ɡ oʊ z /) are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas (including the Caribbean), and two species native to Afro-Eurasia.
There is a single potential sight record of nesting flamingos in Florida: a 1901 report from a Keys resident mentions a flock of 40–50 flamingos on Sugarloaf Key standing by "whitish stumps", which may potentially refer to the flamingos' mud nests. Despite the ambiguity of these reports, the geomorphology of these sites closely resembles that ...
The scope of this list encompasses the entire Hawaiian Islands chain, from Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to the north, to the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the south. The list contains 337 species. Of them, 64 are or were endemic to the islands, 130 are vagrants and 52 were introduced by humans.
The squishy mud that gives wading birds the otherworldly appearance of walking on water in the shallows of Florida Bay also gives the flamingos a measure of protection from human contact.
White Pelicans and Flamingos feed on the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Thursday, January 4, 2024. ... Before 1900, 30 to 40 nesting sites once dotted the Caribbean, and now only five to ...
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This list of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands includes only those species known to have established self-sustaining breeding populations as a direct or indirect result of human intervention. A complete list of all non-native species ever imported to the islands, including those that never became established, would be much longer.
northern Galápagos Islands and the Caribbean: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Chilean flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina, 1782: central Peru to Tierra del Fuego east to south Brazil, Uruguay and central Argentina: Size: Habitat: Diet: NT