Flamingo of the Andes
The Flamant of the Andes ( Phoenicopterus andinus in the past Phoenicoparrus andinus ) has its surface of distribution limited to the Chilean part of the the Andes. One also finds it on Altiplano of Bolivia and the North-West of the Argentine close to the salted lagoons close to the Chilean border. It is a close relative of the Flamant of James.
Like all the flamingos, it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud cluster. Its population of the North of Chile was touched hard by the dryness, which because the draining of the wetlands where it niche, which had as a consequence, either that it was impossible to build the nests, or that the predation was made possible, especially by the fox Pseudalopex culpaeus .
The Flamingo of the Andes, following the example other family members of the Phoenicoptéridé S, nourishes itself by filtering the small elements present in water using its specialized nozzle. It has a lower mandible deep and narrow, which enables him to consume small food such as the Diatomée S, contrary to the broader nozzle of the great species of flamingos, which take larger preys.
Its plumage is in major part white rosâtre. It is the only species to have the yellow legs and feet.
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