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  Caribbean Flamingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a large species of flamingo closely related to the Greater Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo, with which it is sometimes considered conspecific.
It breeds in the Galapagos Islands, coastal Colombia and Venezuela and nearby islands, the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, and in the northern Caribbean in the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba and Turks and Caicos.
The Caribbean Flamingo is 120–140 cm in length; males weigh 2.8 kg and females 2.2 kg.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caribbean_Flamingo   (272 words)

  
 Digimorph - Phoenicopterus ruber (Caribbean flamingo)
Flamingos are easily distinguishable by their rosy or pink feathers (due to the ingestion of carotenoids in their diets), elongate necks and legs, and a conspicuously ventroflexed bill.
Flamingos are highly social birds generally found in subtropical and tropical estuarine and briny bodies of water across Latin America, Africa, and India, in addition to numerous front lawns.
Flamingo mouths are peculiarly built to dexterously separate water and unwanted particles from food items using a large, fatty, highly sensitive tongue with numerous fleshy spines complemented by a keeled, lamellate bill.
www.digimorph.org /specimens/Phoenicopterus_ruber   (1012 words)

  
 Flamingo Conservation in Mexico/Planeta.com
The flamingo eggs are vunerable to racoons (Proycon lotor) and the chicks to the gray fox (Uroyocon cinereoargentus) both of which are relatively common in the region.
Flamingos are equipped with salt glands near the eye to deal with the saltwater ingested with their food.
The flamingos have survived hurricanes, fires, saltworks, and being on display for multitudes of tourists and bird watchers, but their habitat is vunerable to population pressures.
www.planeta.com /planeta/00/0000flamingos.html   (2394 words)

  
 FLAMINGOS: A NATURAL HISTORY
All flamingos are found in tropical and subtropical areas, all non-plastic and / or non-captive flamingos, that is.
The greater flamingo is the tallest of all flamingos, coming at from 40 to 50 inches (100-130 centimeters) and weighing between 7 and 8 pounds (3.1-3.6 kilograms).
The wingspan of flamingos ranges from 37-39 inches (93-99 centimeters) for the lesser flamingo to 55-65 inches (139-165 centimeters) for the greater flamingo.
www.geocities.com /neander97/features/flamingo-B.html   (924 words)

  
 Caribbean Flamingo: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The chilean flamingo (phoenicopterus chilensis) is a large species (110-130 cm) closely related to caribbean flamingo and greater flamingo, with which it...
The caribbean or the west indies is a group of islands in the caribbean sea....
Caribbean Flamingo is 120-140 cm in length; males weigh 2.8 kg and females 2.2 kg.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caribbean_flamingo.htm   (606 words)

  
 Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)
Lesser flamingos are the smallest of the four flamingoes, but they retain the characteristic flamingo shape with long legs, a long neck, a bent bill, and a large body.
They are not as brightly colored as the Caribbean flamingo, but they still have the light pink feathers with fl feathers on their wings.
The eggs and chicks of the Lesser flamingo are preyed upon by the marabou stork, lappet-faced vulture, white-headed vulture, and Egyptian vulture.
www.thebigzoo.com /Animals/Lesser_Flamingo.asp   (257 words)

  
 Flamingo
Flamingos are active both day and night, and find food by using their legs to stir up mud as they stand in water.
Young flamingos are grey in colour with red, straight beaks, and are fed a formula by both parents, similar to mammal’s milk.
The lifespan of a flamingo in the wild is unknown.
www.robstewartphotography.com /facts/Flamingo.asp?i_id=321   (688 words)

  
 ANIMAL BYTES - Caribbean Flamingo
The Caribbean flamingo is by far the brightest and one of the largest of all the flamingos.
Caribbean flamingos are thought by some scientists to be the most primitive in their mating and courtship displays.
The flamingo is unique in that the adults, both male and female, provide their young with a type of milk called crop milk.
www.seaworld.org /animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/aves/ciconiiformes/caribbean-flamingo.htm   (383 words)

  
 San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Flamingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Caribbean, greater Phoenicopterus ruber, and Chilean flamingos Phoenicopterus chilensis are larger and feed mostly on invertebrates such as brine flies, shrimps, and mollusks.
Flamingos are social birds that like to live in groups of varying sizes, from a few pair to sometimes thousands or tens of thousands.
Flamingos lay a single large egg, which is incubated by both parents.
www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-flamingo.html   (989 words)

  
 Flamingo Mobile, garden art, yard art, nature gifts
Flamingos are related to herons, storks, and spoonbills and have longer necks and legs in proportion to body size than any other kind of bird.
Flamingos can swim and their style is much the same as that of a duck or swan.
Caribbean, Greater, and Chilean flamingos are larger and feed mostly on invertebrates such as brine flies, shrimps, and mollusks.
www.flyingmobiles.com /html/mobiles/bd17.htm   (3490 words)

  
 Flamingo Lingo
Chilean flamingos are slightly smaller than Caribbean flamingos and have gray legs with pink bands at the joints.
Flamingo feather coloration ranges from pale pink to crimson according to species, with Caribbean Flamingos have the brightest coloration.
Caribbean flamingos eat larval and pupal forms of flies and brine shrimp as their main food.
www.naturehaven.com /Flamingo/flamingo.html   (1346 words)

  
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The chemical make-up of the water where the flamingo feeds is so strong that it would remove the skin from a human leg in seconds, but the skin on the flamingo’s legs is extremely tough.
The flamingo’s long legs allow it to wade through deep water and mud in search of food and its distinctive boomerang-shaped beak is specially adapted to capture and filter food (much the same way the blue whale filters food.
The average life span of the greater flamingo in the wild is 20 years in captivity it’s 50 years.
www.colszoo.org /animalareas/shores/flamingo.html   (614 words)

  
 Animals: Birds Caribbean Flamingo
This flamingo is found in the Caribbean, part of Central America, northeastern South America and in the Galapagos Islands.
Flamingo parents feed their chicks with a liquid secreted from the upper digestive tract that is similar to pigeon "milk" and has a very high nutritional value.
Caribbean flamingos are extremely gregarious and live in huge colonies.
www.philadelphiazoo.org /index.php?id=3_1_4_3   (494 words)

  
 National Zoo| FONZ
The Zoo exhibits flamingos from the Caribbean region.
Flamingos are usually 42 inches long from the tip of the head to the tip of the tail, and are as tall as five feet.
Flamingos eat algae, mollusks, larvae chrysalides of brine-flies and brine-shrimps, which give them their pink color.
nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/Birds/Facts/FactSheets/fact_flamingo.cfm   (149 words)

  
 Flamingos
The greater flamingo is the tallest flamingo, standing 110 to 130 cm (43-51 in.) and weighing up to 3.5 kg (7.7 lb.).
The wingspan of flamingos ranges from 95 to 100 cm (37-39 in.) for the lesser flamingo to 140 to 165 cm (55-65 in.) for the greater flamingo.
Flamingos molt (shed and replace) their wing and body feathers at irregular intervals ranging from twice a year to once every two years.
www.seaworld.org /infobooks/Flamingos/fphysical.html   (836 words)

  
 Flamingo; Flamingo tongues were once considered a great delicacy.
Paler in coloration, this flamingo one of the world's most beautiful birds is the Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), a resident species of the Galápagos, primarily seen on Floreana and other southern islands.
There are seven species of flamingo world-wide, and in addition to the Caribbean, wild flocks are found in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, as well as occasionally in Florida.
The flamingo is a thin legged swan necked vertebrate.
www.planet-pets.com /plntflmg.htm   (573 words)

  
 The Wild Ones: Flamingo
Flamingos live in lagoons, or lakes, where there is lots of mud and water.
Flamingos use a variety of habitats: mangrove swamps, tidal flats, and sandy islands in the intertidal zone.
A flamingos worst enemy is man, who destroys the bird's habitat, directly by using the land for other purposes or indirectly by changing the natural processes that occur on that land (water depth, water quality, salinity).
www.thewildones.org /Animals/flamingo.html   (984 words)

  
 Animal Bytes: Flamingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Caribbean flamingos Phoenicopterus ruber ruber are the brightest, showing their true colors of red, pink, or orange on their legs, bills, and faces.
And to allow the flamingos to eat in their normal way (taking in water and then pumping it back out), a water source just for feeding is near their food so they can get a beakful of water and then food—just like they would in the wild.
In flight, flamingos are quite distinctive, with their long necks stretched out in front and the equally long legs trailing behind.
dev.sandiegozoo.com /animalbytes/t-flamingo.html   (977 words)

  
 Greater Flamingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is found in parts of Africa, southwest Asia (including Turkey), southern Asia (coastal regions of India) and southern Europe (including Spain, Portugal, and the Camargue region of France).
This is a large species, averaging 120-140cm tall, and is closely related to the Caribbean Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo, with which it is sometimes considered conspecific.
Like all flamingos, this species lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Flamingo   (173 words)

  
 Caribbean Flamingo :: Saint Louis Zoo
A Caribbean flamingo hatchling is gray-white, and for the first month or so its bill is straight, not curved like an adult bill.
The Caribbean – a subspecies of the greater flamingo -- is the most brightly colored and the most widely distributed.
The Caribbean flamingos can be found at the lake in The Wild, but move to their off-display indoor home in the winter.
www.stlzoo.org /animals/abouttheanimals/birds/heronsflamingosibisspoonbi/caribbeanflamingo.htm   (958 words)

  
 info: Caribbean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Caribbean expects rough hurricane season (MSNBC)Small Caribbean and Central American countries have suffered devastation and thousands of deaths from increasingly frequent hurricanes, and forecasters predict another rough season for the region and its tourist resorts.
New Caribbean awards launched (The Jamaica Observer)A new Caribbean-based initiative, the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence, was launched in Jamaica on Friday with a promise to recognise significant Caribbean achievement and to encourage and support the pursuit of excellence by Caribbean people, according to the programme director, Trinidadian Francis Lewis.
Caribbean in for another bad hurricane season (Stuff)HAVANA: Small Caribbean and Central American countries have suffered devastation and thousands of deaths from increasingly frequent hurricanes, and forecasters predict another rough season this year for the region and its tourist resorts.
www.napoli-pizza.net /Caribbean.html   (799 words)

  
 San Diego Zoo Exhibit: Flamingo Lagoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Flamingos lay one chalky white egg in a mud nest that is built like a drip sand castle by the parents.
Caribbean flamingos have been exhibited at the Zoo since 1932, and they have been at the front entrance for over 50 years.
Flamingos are consistently rated among the most popular attractions in zoological parks.
www.sandiegozoo.org /zoo/ex_flamingo_lagoon.html   (383 words)

  
 Chilean Flamingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a large species (110-130 cm) closely related to Caribbean Flamingo and Greater Flamingo, with which it is sometimes considered conspecific.
The plumage is pinker than the slightly larger Greater Flamingo, but less so than Caribbean Flamingo.
It can be differentiated from these species by its greyish legs with pink "knees", and also by the larger amount of fl on the bill (more than half).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chilean_Flamingo   (130 words)

  
 Flamingo Park, Seaview, Isle of Wight - Caribbean Flamingo
The Flamingo Park Wildlife Encounter launched in March 2002 an ambitious conservation project working closely with The Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Gloucestershire.
Flamingos like to breed in large secure colonies, but Flamingo Park only has nine Caribbean Flamingos.
This sub-species is the brightest coloured of all flamingos.
www.iowight.com /flamingo-park/flamingo/carib.htm   (448 words)

  
 Flamingos
On 5 and 6 of November 2002, the fourth regional workshop on the Southern population of the Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) was held on Bonaire.
A group of conservation administrators and field biologists from several range countries of the Caribbean Flamingo in the southern Caribbean, met to discuss their observations and research and future collaborative work for the conservation of this species.
As far as the monitoring of the number of Flamingos is concerned, it was agreed that, this would be synchronized within a few days, monthly for the core areas in Venezuela and Bonaire and bimonthly for the other areas in the southern Caribbean.
www.mina.vomil.an /Eilandinfo/Flamingos.html   (416 words)

  
 Flamingo Information
Flamingos (genus Phoenicopterus monotypic in family Phoenicopteridae) are gregarious wading birds, usually 3-5 feet in height, found in both the western and eastern hemispheres.
The flamingos are so densely packed that individual birds cannot take to flight but must wait until those on the edge of the flock take off first.
General information about flamingos and responses to frequently asked quesitonsl like "Why are flamingos pink?".
www.junglewalk.com /info/flamingo-information.htm   (709 words)

  
 Caribbean Monk Seal Resource Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This does not mean that the cheaper Caribbean beach front property is any less beautiful or luxurious than the more expensive ones, but rather means the location is different.
The Caribbean monk seal (M. tropicalis) which is probably extinct, and the Mediterranean monk eal (M. monachus) whose population is less than 500.
The Caribbean monk seal was a relatively small seal, the...
www.allcaribbean.info /find/caribbeanmonkseal   (1131 words)

  
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The importance of the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Botswana for Flamingos in Africa.
Caribbean Flamingos feeding at a new solar saltworks in western Venezuela.
Sonographic analysis of the vocalizations of Chilean and Caribbean Flamingos.
www.waterbirds.org /flamingos.htm   (343 words)

  
 Caribbean Flamingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
These bright pink, large bodied birds have long necks and small heads and can be found in South America and the Caribbean.
Flamingos aren't born with their beautiful pink plumage.
Their color comes from pigments in the shrimp and other crustaceans they consume as part of their diet.
rhinorally.com /english/static/subsections/animals/caribbeanflam.htm   (48 words)

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