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 LC    Caribbean Flamingo* Id (Atlas):
    Phoenicopterus ruber Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
American Flamingo, Caribbean Flamingo (ruber), Greater Flamingo (ruber) (ruber), Cuban Flamingo (ruber), West Indian Flamingo (ruber), Rosy Flamingo (roseus)

Family
Phoenicopteridae (Flamingos)

Size
120 - 145 cm
Wingspan: 140 - 170 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1758

Range (Guide)
Aruba, Bahamas (B), Brazil, Colombia, Cuba (B), Dominican Republic (B), Ecuador (B), French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti (B), Jamaica, Mexico (B), Netherlands Antilles (B), Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands (NB), USA, Venezuela (B).

Vagrant to Anguilla (NB), Antigua and Barbuda (E), Barbados (E), Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Caribbean; Galapagos.
 
Population
Estimated population is 260,000 - 330,000 (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

 
American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) [XC737280]
     by Patricio Mena Valenzuela from Celestun, Yucatan, Mexico (call)

 
American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) [XC872218]
     by Paul Driver from Localidad Reserva Estatal El Palmar--Santuario de los Flamencos, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
Phoenicopterus ruber (Sibley and Monroe, 1990, 1993) has been split into Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) and Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) following Knox et al. (2002), contra SACC (2005).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • ruber Linnaeus, 1758   -  Caribbean; Galapagos.
  • roseus Pallas, 1811   -  Southern Spain and southern France east to Kazakhstan; south through north, western and eastern Africa to South Africa and through Middle East to India and Sri Lanka. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus).



References
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Files:
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