American flamingo
phoenicopterus ruber latin

"American Flamingo" shows a gangly pink bird upended with a feathers and legs flying.

Just outside the aviary are American flamingos and various swan species native to South America.

There are in the area several saline lagoons and mudflats visited by large populations of American Flamingos.

In Walton Ford's "American Flamingo" are comments on the morality of hunting.

Like the American Flamingo, their pink color is diet-derived, consisting of the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin.

Both white-tailed and red-tailed tropicbirds are seen in the park, as are American flamingos, with some of the latter probably escaped captive birds.

The lagoon attracts a wide variety of water birds including American Flamingoes, ducks, gulls, terns and other shorebirds.

It is the only place in the Brazilian coast where the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) nests.

American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

In addition to the indoor aquariums, the shores region also features exhibits of American flamingos, American alligators, and Humboldt penguins.

Today's artists featured in the exhibition tell their stories pictorially, as in Walton Ford's "American Flamingo," whose death throes comment on the morality of hunting.

The collection includes orangutans, gibbons and other primates; the American Flamingo, jaguar and Burmese Python can be found here as well.

Adult American Flamingoes are smaller on average than Greater Flamingoes but are the largest flamingoes in the Americas.

The park became so famous for its flamingo flocks that it has been officially designated a sanctuary for the American Flamingo by the Audubon Society.

It is a saline lake with a higher concentration of salt than the sea water and harbors numerous fauna such as American Crocodiles and American Flamingos.

One of the largest aviaries in Europe, this exhibit is home to birds including scarlet ibis, American flamingos, cattle egrets, purple-crested turacos, storks, and vulturine guineafowl.

Large estuaries near Riohacha are protected as the SFF Los Flamencos which is meant to protect the habitat for the American Flamingo.

Anne Meadows, later the author of Digging Up Butch and Sundance, wrote "Better Pink than Extinct," about South American flamingos.

The American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a large species of flamingo closely related to the Greater Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo.

PRONATURA was lobbying for the conservation of the wetlands in northern Yucatán as breeding and feeding habitats of the American Flamingo.

The exhibit is home to the Zoo's group of American alligator, American black bear, red wolves, Florida panthers, white-tail deer, otters, bobcats, bald eagles, and formerly American flamingos.

According to a 1997 census by the Zoological Survey Department of Pakistan, around 40 to 50 thousand American Flamingos and Paradisaea minor (Lesser Birds-of-Paradise) were recorded in the region.

Mayaguana is home to the Bahamian Hutia, a rodent that was thought to be extinct until the mid-1960s, as well as American Flamingoes, Bartsch's Iguanas, plovers, terns, and Osprey.

Every November, Salar de Uyuni is the breeding ground for three species of pink South American flamingo: the Chilean, Andean and rare James's Flamingos, their color presumably originating from feeding on pink algae.

The American Flamingo breeds in the Galápagos, coastal Colombia, Venezuela and nearby islands, Hispaniola, Cuba, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and along the northern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.

In the coastal belt, bird species recorded are Phoenicopterus ruber on the beaches, and also many birds of prey.

The archipelago is a natural habitat for Caribbean Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber).

It is the only place in the Brazilian coast where the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) nests.

Phoenicopterus ruber (Greater Flamingo)

Among them are 2,000-12,000 flamingoes (Phoenicopterus ruber) which spend the winter months there feeding off populations of the brine shrimp Artemia salina.

The largest flamingo is the Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) of Eurasia and Africa.

The Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber antiquorum Temm.)

The ecoregion is notable for being the habitat of a large community of Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), besides a diversity of birds and bats.

The American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a large species of flamingo closely related to the Greater Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo.

GREATER FLAMINGO Phoenicopterus ruber (Phoenicopteridae).

This summer, a flock of 31 birds (including some European flamingos - Phoenicopterus ruber rosus) successfully raised four chicks at the site, thereby allowing it to be designated as the world's most northerly wild flamingo colony.

Besides native species, there are also many exotic species that have appeared in Vietnam for the first time, such as Hippopotamus amphibious, Chorepsis liberiensis, Panthera onca, Struthio camelus, Phoenicopterus ruber ruber.