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The American flamingo breeds in South America (in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, coastal Colombia and Venezuela, and northern Brazil), in the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), The Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands), and tropical and subtropical areas ...
A reported sighting of an American flamingo at Chapin Beach in Dennis on Sunday afternoon has set the Cape Cod birding world aflutter.
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).
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.
Shufeldt described Phoenicopterus copei as having both longer legs as well as longer wings than the modern American flamingo. [1] The tibiotarsus has a distal end recognized for being broader than in either the American or greater flamingo, with wide spaces between the individual condyles. This matches the anatomy of the intercotylar tubercle ...
Lake Manix is known for the preservation of a multitude of water birds that lived in the region during the Pleistocene, including a second species of flamingo. This second species, known from juvenile remains that fall within the size range of modern American and greater flamingos has been tentatively assigned to Phoenicopterus copei.
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Some notable bird species are the osprey; vulnerable species such as American flamingo, tricolored heron and brown pelican; species whose preferred habitat is the mangrove such as neotropic cormorant, snowy egret, scaled piculet, orange-winged amazon and scarlet ibis; and species with restricted distribution such as the magnificent frigatebird.