Pink flamingo
The Pink flamingo ( Phoenicopterus ruber ) is the species of Flamant most largely widespread. Two subspecies are recognized: Phoenicopterus ruber roseus and Phoenicopterus ruber ruber .
One meets the first in certain areas of Africa, in Asia of the South-west (of which the Turkey) and in Mediterranean Europe (of which the Spain and the France, in the Camargue). Some populations make migration S at short distance. The second subspecies is the only flamingo with living in a natural state in North America.
It is a large bird (120 to 140 cm and 3,5 kg maximum), close relative of the Flamant of Chile, with which he is sometimes regarded as conspecific. Like all the flamingos, this one lays a single chalky white egg on a mud monticule that the couples, using their nozzle, build and work together, on the wet ground. Father and mother nourish in turn chick with a pulp very rich in glucose which they secrete in their esophagus, then régurgitent in the nozzle of their offspring.
At the subspecies roseus , most of the plumage is white rosâtre, whereas it is pink at the subspecies ruber . For the remainder, the wing covers are red, with the Rémige S black primary educations and secondaries. The nozzle is pink with black point, and the legs are entirely pink. The cry resembles that of a goose. The pink flamingo sleeps upright on one or two legs, the head hidden under a wing. Contrary to the majority of the birds, because of their size, the flamingos must take a few meters of dash to take off of water. Migrating, they fly in formation, by keeping neck and legs stretched. The beats of wings, powerful and regular, propel them to 60 km/h on stages of several hundred km.
The subspecies roseus is considered, by certain specialists, like a species with whole share: Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas, 1811.
Food
plankton: shellfish, towards, molluscs, larvae of insects, algae microcospic (of which the artemia, rich in carotene, which intensifies or prolongs the pink color of the plumage). The nozzle of the pink flamingo is provided with pennons which enable him to filter the mud.
Reproduction
Brooded: 1 small , Incubation: 30 days.
Predatory
Marabout.
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