Jump to content

Andean flamingo: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
m warnfile Adding:fr
fix author link
Line 17: Line 17:
</table>
</table>
<tr><th align="center" bgcolor="pink">'''[[Binomial nomenclature|Binomial name]]'''</th></tr>
<tr><th align="center" bgcolor="pink">'''[[Binomial nomenclature|Binomial name]]'''</th></tr>
<tr><th align="center">''Phoenicopterus andinus''<br><small>[[Rudolph Philippi|Philippi]], [[1854]]</small></th></tr>
<tr><th align="center">''Phoenicopterus andinus''<br><small>[[Rodolfo Amando Philippi|Philippi]], [[1854]]</small></th></tr>


</table>
</table>

Revision as of 08:46, 19 May 2005

Andean Flamingo
Template:StatusVulnerable
File:Flam.andean.250pix.jpg

Larger version

Template:Regnum: Animalia
Template:Phylum:Chordata
Template:Classis: Aves
Template:Ordo: Ciconiiformes
Template:Familia:Phoenicopteridae
Template:Genus: Phoenicopterus
[[{{{1}}}{{{2}}} {{{3}}}|{{{1}}}. {{{3}}}]]:andinus
Binomial name
Phoenicopterus andinus
Philippi, 1854

The Andean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus andinus) is a bird species in the Flamingo family restricted to the Chilean Andes. It is closely related to James's Flamingo.

Like all flamingos it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound. Its population in Northern Chile was badly hit hit by drought, which cause the breeding lagoon areas to dry up, either preventing nest building, or allowing predation especially from the Culpeo Fox, Pseudolopex culpaeus.

Andean Flamingos, like all the group, feed by filtering small items from water with their specialised bills. They have a deep, narrow lower mandible, which allows them to eat small foods such as diatoms, in contrast to the wider bill of larger species, which take bigger prey items.

Most of the plumage is pinkish white. The Andean Flamingo is the only species that has yellow legs and feet.