Flamingos
Phoenicopteridae
Flamingos or flamingoes () are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas (including the Caribbean), and two species native to Afro-Eurasia.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Large Flamingos
genusPhoenicopterus
Lesser Flamingos
genusPhoeniconaias
Andean flamingos
genusPhoenicoparrus
Large × Lesser Flamingos
genushybridPhoenicopterus × Phoeniconaias
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4255.