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The size and typical pink colour of these birds make them unmistakable. The Greater Flamingo has pink feathers and black tipped wings with a very long neck, pink legs and webbed pink feet. They stand up to 150cm high and can weigh up to 3kg. The males and females look alike with the males being slightly bigger than the females.
These birds live in large colonies of up to 10 000 birds called flocks or stands, in mudflats and shallow coastal saltwater lagoons and spend most of the day feeding. Flamingos are filter feeders and live off algae and tiny animals such as shrimps, mollusks, etc. which live in the mud at the bottom of shallow pools.
Greater flamingo
Scientific:- Phoenicopterus roseus
Origin:- High Andes in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina.
The Greater Flamingo, a resident species of the Galápagos, primarily seen on Floreana and other southern islands. Paler in coloration than found elsewhere, due to its diet, the Galápagos variety inhabits the brackish lagoons of the tidal zones, often in colonies of two to four hundred individuals.
Greater Flamingo in the pans near Welkom , Freestate , RSA
Greater flamingo the bigger of the two , 125-165 cm , 2.5-3.5 kg , beaks are lighter pink with blak tip
Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Île-de-France, France.
These famous pink birds can be found in warm, watery regions on many continents. They favor environments like estuaries and saline or alkaline lakes. Considering their appearance, flamingos are surprisingly fluid swimmers, but really thrive on the extensive mud flats where they breed and feed.
Greater flamingos are likely to be the only tall, pink bird in any given locale. They also have long, lean, curved necks and black-tipped bills with a distinctive downward bend.
Their bent bills allow them to feed on small organisms—plankton, tiny fish, fly larvae, and the like. In muddy flats or shallow water, they use their long legs and webbed feet to stir up the bottom. They then bury their bills, or even their entire heads, and suck up both mud and water to access the tasty morsels within. A flamingo's beak has a filterlike structure to remove food from the water before the liquid is expelled.
Shrimplike crustaceans are responsible for the flamingo's pink color. The birds pale in captivity unless their diet is supplemented.
Greater flamingos live and feed in groups called flocks or colonies. They find safety in numbers, which helps to protect individual birds from predators while their heads are down in the mud. Greater flamingos also breed while gathered in groups. Once mating is complete, a pair takes turns incubating their single egg. Young flamingos are born gray and white and do not turn pink for two years. In years when wetlands and pools are dry and food scarce, flamingoes may not breed.
Saw these wonderful birds from the road and just had to stop and take some photos! They reside in mudflats and shallow coastal lagoons with salt water.
Taken at Nal Sarovar, India, 2013. Nalsarovar is the largest wetland bird sanctuary in Gujarat, and one of the largest in India. It's been a Bird Sanctuary since 1969 and a Ramsar site since 2012.
One of the more surprising Galápagos waterbirds - a small population of a few hundred individuals - here feeding on the saltwater lagoon of Floreana
No es muy común que nos visiten, pero tuve la suerte de poder ver a estos cuatro Flamencos que nos visitaron.
It is not common to see Flamingos in PR today. We have only one resident in Camuy, but these four visited us recently and I was happy to see them.
greater flamingoes - a closer shot, as they begin to get nervous. Even though we were a fair distance away.
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Bachas Beach
Santa Cruz Island
AKA Indefatigable Island
Galapagos Islands
Ecuador
18 August 2010