Phoenicopteridae
The family of the phœnicoptéridés (or Phoenicopteridae ) includes/understands 3 kinds often gathered in only one and five to six species of flamingos .
Often classified in a private individual, that of the phœnicoptériformes, the classification of Sibley & Monroe now arranges it in the order of the ciconiiformes.
These are gregarious birds that one meets at the same time in the Nouveau and the Old world. They are more numerous in this last, but the America has four of them S, against two for the Old-World. One finds them in central South America and , in Africa, southernmost Europe and with the the Middle East.
The flamingos live in groups in the wetlands. They attend the not very major stretches of water, normally salted, brackish or alkaline, as well on the coasts as inside the grounds, of the sea level until close to 5 000 m of altitude.
Alphabetical list of the kinds
- Phoeniconaias (F.) Gray, GR. 1869
- Phoenicoparrus (Mr.) Bonaparte 1856
- Phoenicopterus (Mr.) Linnaeus, 1758
List species & subspecies
- Pink flamingo - Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, 1758 - Greater Flamingo
- Phoenicopterus ruber roseus Pallas, 1811
- Phoenicopterus ruber ruber Linnaeus, 1758
- Flamingo of Chile - Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina, 1782 - Chilean Flamingo
- dwarf Flamingo - Phoeniconaias minor (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798) - To injure Flamingo
- Flamingo of the Andes - Phoenicoparrus andinus (Philippi, 1854) - Andean Flamingo
- Flamingo of James - Phoenicoparrus jamesi (P.L. Sclater, 1886) - Puna Flamingo or James' Flamingo
The six taxed are registered with appendix II of the Cites.
References
- List of Alan P. Peterson (Ciconiiformes)
(3 kinds, 5 species & 6 taxed) - (1 kind & 5 species)
Zh-yue: 紅鸛
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