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[5] [6] The species is treated as monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [7] The genus name Phoenicopterus is the Latin word for a flamingo. The specific epithet ruber is Latin meaning "red". [8] The greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), that is widespread in the Old World, was formerly treated as a subspecies of the American flamingo. [6]
The Phoenicoparrus split from the group around 2.56 million years ago and its two comprising species later split from 0.5-2.5 million years ago. The Phoenicoparrus is identified from the rest of its evolutionary group because it is a part of the deep-keeled group, however it is its own genus because both Andean and Jame's lack a hind toe.
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). Flamingos can have a wingspan as small as 37 inches (94 cm) to as big ...
Flamingos are normally found throughout the Caribbean, the Yucatan peninsula and northern South America. However, birds can be blown hundreds of miles off course by storms, a boon for bird ...
Audubon Florida has received reports of more than 100 flamingos from as far north as St. Marks Wildlife Refuge all the way south to Collier County and the Keys — and they seem to be sticking around.
Phoenicopterus copei is an extinct species of flamingo that inhabited North America during the Late Pleistocene. Its fossils have been discovered in Oregon , California , Mexico and Florida . Many of these localities preserve the remains of juvenile individuals, indicating that this species nested at the lakes found there.
Birds of a feather. Chilean flamingos can be finicky when it comes to breeding. In the wild, observations have shown the species to avoid breeding for up to nine years as the birds wait for ...
It is the largest flamingo in the Andes and is one of the two heaviest living flamingos alongside the taller greater flamingo. [5] Reportedly body mass of the Andean flamingo has ranged from 1.5 to 4.9 kg (3.3 to 10.8 lb), height from 1 to 1.4 m (3 ft 3 in to 4 ft 7 in) and wingspan from 1.4 to 1.6 m (4 ft 7 in to 5 ft 3 in). [5] [6]