Phoenicopterus ruber

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Salt lakes and brackish coastal lagoons .

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, coastal waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 1,141 meters (3,745 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     13     Marine Coastal/Supratidal   
  
•     13.4     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes   
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Biology

Diet

Small swimming crustaceans, algae, and single-celled organisms . Also worms and seeds of marsh grasses.

Reproduction

Nests on the ground in large colonies. Mate only once ever 2-3 years. Typically lay only one egg , that is incubated for 27-31 days.

Clutch Size: 1-2 Length of Incubation : 28-32 days Days to Fledge : 75-77 Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Roseate Spoonbill

Members of the genus Phoenicopterus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. andinus (Andean Flamingo) · P. chilensis (Chilean Flamingo) · P. jamesi (James's Flamingo) · P. minor (Lesser Flamingo) · P. roseus (Afro-Asian Greater Flamingo) · P. ruber (West Indian Flamingo) · P. ruber glyphorhynchus (Galapagos Flamingo) · P. ruber ruber (American Flamingo)

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Phoenicopterus ruber. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 08, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University of California Museum of Paleontology DiGIR provider
• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Ornithology Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• Senckenberg, Collection Aves
• Senckenberg, Collection Aves
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Western Palearctic migrants in continental Africa
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174976
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174976
• IUCN ID: 232032
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNHA01010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13674

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 586.430 based on 2,813 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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