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	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.
		The Lesser flamingo eats by holding its bill upside-down in the water and using its tongue to suck in water and mud.
		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 (265 words)

	WWF-India: Information Zone (Fly to the Sky) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Phoeniconaias minor, the lesser flamingo is the smallest of all flamingos.
		The wingspan of flamingos ranges from 95 to 100 cm for the lesser flamingo, to 140 to 165 cm for greater flamingo.
		Flamingos are generally non-migratory birds.However, due to changes in the climate and water levels in their breeding areas, flamingo colonies are not always permanent.
	www.wwfindia.org /fly_to_the_sky_2.php (532 words)

	ANIMAL BYTES - Lesser Flamingo
		The lesser flamingo is one of the smallest and the brightest of the flamingos.
		Lesser flamingos are believed to be the most numerous and live in the largest flocks.
		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/lesser-flamingo.htm (343 words)

	ABC-KID.com - Flamingo Pictures For Kids
		Flamingos are found next to or in saltly lagoons and lakes.
		A flamingo is known for their skinny, long legs, and curved beak and neck.
		A flamingo's nest is made of mud, stones, straw and feathers and may be as high as 12 inches.
	www.abc-kid.com /flamingo (449 words)

	FLAMINGOS: A NATURAL HISTORY
		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 lesser flamingo is, not surprisingly, the smallest of all flamingos, standing a mere 30 inches (76 centimeters) tall and weighing only 5 to 6 pounds (2.26-2.75 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)

	Flamingos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Flamingo numbers and breeding success were monitored from the air on a monthly basis over two breeding seasons.
		Greater and Lesser Flamingo populations reached maxima of, respectively, 57800 and 149400, exceeding totals estimated for both populations in southern African.
		Greater and Lesser Flamingo diet was determined from faecal and opportunistic crop sampling and mostly comprised dominant crustaceans and algae and diatoms.
	www.pu-la.com /links/flamingos.htm (173 words)

	Flamingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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 young hatch with white plumage, but the feathers of a flamingo in adulthood range from light pink to bright red, due to carotenoids obtained from their food supply.
		Flamingos produce a “milk” like pigeon milk due to the action of a hormone called prolactin (see Columbidae).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flamingo (360 words)

	Flamingos
		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.
		The Chilean, greater, and lesser flamingos have three forward-pointing toes and a hallux, or hind toe.
		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)

	GPZ ZooExtra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Flamingos are a family of large, brilliantly colored aquatic birds whose characteristic habitats are alkaline or saline lakes.
		The lesser flamingo populations are found in eastern, southwestern, and western Africa.
		Flamingos are the bird with the longest neck and the longest legs compared with body size.
	www.gpz.org /depts/educ/zooxtra.html (504 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- East African halophytics (AT0901)
		The lesser flamingos filter the blue-green algae out of the salty waters and the greater flamingos feed on copepod larvae that live in the shallow waters of the lakes.
		Africa’s flamingo populations are not isolated, and flamingos migrate between the soda lakes of East Africa and the Etosha and Magadikgadi Pans in southern Africa (Simmons 1995).
		An Africa-wide assessment of greater flamingo populations in 1975 estimated 165,000 greater flamingos in Africa (75,000 in southern Africa, 50,000 in East Africa and 40,000 in northwest Africa).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0901_full.html (2179 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Flamingo
		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.
		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)

	Lesser Flamingos: WhoZoo
		Lesser flamingos are unusual among flamingos in having a hallux, a toe that projects from the back of the foot.
		Lesser flamingos are gregarious birds, forming large flocks.
		Lesser flamingos can live for as long as 50 years in captivity.
	www.whozoo.org /Anlife2002/tiffrand/TMR_LesserFlamingo2.htm (293 words)

	NWF - International Wildlife Magazine - Flamingos, Lesser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Drought in the mid-1990s desiccated the flamingos' best-known feeding ground, Kenya's 17-square-mile Lake Nakuru, until a mere one-twentieth of the lake basin was covered with putrid water.
		Lesser flamingos subsist almost exclusively on blue-green algae, and the algal soup of Lake Nakuru had been diluted into a thin broth.
		Both the lesser flamingos and their favorite food are well adapted to the harsh environment of the region's soda lakes, where volcanic ash and evaporation have produced concentrated alkaline solutions that few other animals can tolerate.
	www.nwf.org /internationalwildlife/1998/flamingo.html (554 words)

	barbets in africa - wildwatch.com
		The Chilean, Andean and Puna Flamingos are confined to South America, the Lesser Flamingo ranges across Africa (but also has populations in Arabia and India), and the widespread Greater Flamingo occurs on five continents.
		The Lesser Flamingo feeds on algae floating in the water, so its upper mandible (which is at the bottom when feeding) has air cavities which allows it to float.
		Both the Lesser and Greater Flamingo feed in the lake on the floor of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, and photographic opportunities here are simply magnificent (Lake Natron is just about 100km to the north of Ngorongoro but no tourist facilities exist there).
	www.wildwatch.com /resources/birds/flamboyantflamingos.asp (787 words)

	WWT Threatened Species Department
		Flamingos are unique in form: distinguishing characteristics include long legs, a long, curved neck and a gooselike voice (not to mention a pink plumage and an upside down smile!).
		The Chilean Flamingo is the most abundant flamingo of the New World, while the smallest flamingo species is also the most numerous - the Lesser Flamingo of the Africa and India outnumbers the combined total of all other species.
		Breeding flamingos are also at the mercy of unusual weather events, breeding birds are sometimes forced to abandon nests, eggs and chicks as a result of drought (leading to nest islands becoming accessible to predators such as foxes) or conversely, by heavy rainfall (leading to flooding of nesting islands).
	www.wwt.org.uk /threatsp/pastwwt/flamingo.htm (644 words)

	Lesser Flamingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lesser Flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor) is a species in the flamingo family of birds which occurs in Africa (principally in the Great Rift Valley), across to northwest India.
		It is the smallest and most numerous flamingo, probably numbering up to a million individual birds.
		Its clearest difference from Greater Flamingo, the only other Old World species, is the much more extensive fl on the bill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lesser_Flamingo (174 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Animals birds - flamingo natural history
		The flamingo therefore has a monopoly on their food source and where it is abundant, they will assemble in huge numbers.
		Flamingos occur in such numbers at Lake Nakuru in Kenya that the sight has been called "the greatest bird spectacle on Earth" by Roger Tory Peterson, an American bird expert.
		The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is the larger, typically five feet (1.5 m) high and four feet (1.2 m) from head to tail.
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afanimals/birds/flamingonathist.shtml (806 words)

	Lesser flamingo - Phoenicopterus minor: More Information - ARKive
		Lesser flamingos have a deep red bill, tipped with fl, whereas the bill of greater flamingos is light pink, tipped with fl (6).
		The lesser flamingo breeds in flooded salt pans in southern Africa and highly alkaline lakes in eastern Africa.
		The lesser flamingo has yet to breed in captivity, but with such high numbers of individuals, the main concern of conservationists is to conserve its highly specialised habitat.
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/birds/Phoenicopterus_minor/more_info.html (995 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Lesser Flamingos were reported breeding in the Momella lakes, where nests and flightless young were seen in February 2002 by E. Waser (inf.
		France The IWC revealed a total of 31,822 flamingos wintering in January 2001 along the Mediterranean coast of France, from the Salins d'Hyères (Var) west to the lagoons of Roussillon (Pyr.Orientales), and a further 19 birds in Corsica.
		Flamingos and the West Nile virus In the autumn of 2000, an outbreak of West Nile virus occurred among the horses of the Camargue.
	www.wetlands.org /networks/Flamingo/Newsletter2001.doc (5921 words)

	American Flamingo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The American Flamingo is certainly the most colorful and well known of the Flamingoes and is the type of Flamingo that greets the visitors to the Honolulu Zoo.
		The small crustaceans and algae that the flamingoes eat contain carotinoid and other natural pigments that are processed in the body and deposited in the growing feathers.
		Flamingoes are very social birds and will not nest unless there are a number of other flamingoes present.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /american_flamingo.htm (1035 words)

	The Wild Ones: Flamingo
		The greater flamingo is as tall as a grown-up person is. The lesser flamingo is as tall as a first-grader.
		Flamingos live in lagoons, or lakes, where there is lots of mud and water.
		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)

	Hot Pink @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Converging by the hundreds of thousands on East Africa's alkaline soda lakes, the three-foot-tall (one-meter-tall) birds are known as lesser flamingos, the smallest of five species.
		As the flamingo swings its head from side to side, its large, thick tongue pumps lake water into the scoop-shaped bill, where a filter of hair-like projections extracts algae.
		A fact file on flamingos, additional references, and some photos by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust—a group leading a study of lesser flamingos and their migration habits.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0312/feature4 (731 words)

	Flamingoes
		Flamingos are gregarious birds; flocks numbering hundreds may be seen in long, curving flight formations and in wading groups along the shore.
		In feeding, the flamingo tramps the shallows, stirring up organic matter, especially minute mollusks and crustaceans, which it strains from the muddy water by means of its sievelike lamellated bill.
		The (Phoeniconaias minor) lesser flamingo, abundant in the lake district of eastern Africa and also occurring in South Africa, Madagascar, and India, is the most abundant flamingo.
	personal.monm.edu /novak_alison (306 words)

	Referencias de interés. Periódicos, artículos científicos, libros y páginas web.
		Bartholomew, G.A. and Pennycuick, C.J. (1973) The flamingo and pelican populations of the Rift Valley Lakes in 1968.69.
		(1999) Mycobacterium avium-related epizootic in free-ranging lesser flamingos in Kenya.
		A photographic census of flamingos in the Rift Valley lakes of Tanzania.
	bogoria.iespana.es /bogoria/biblio.htm (324 words)

	Flamingo Park, Seaview, Isle of Wight - Lesser Flamingo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Lesser flamingo is the smallest and most abundant of all the six species.
		The Lesser flamingo has a life span of around twenty years in its natural habitat but has been known to live longer in captivity.
		NEGATIVE: Flamingos damage lagoons they live in by creating their nests; this process can actually lead to flooding when the soil is washed away.
	www.isle-of-wight.uk.com /flamingo-park/flamingo/lesser.htm (280 words)

	* Flamingo - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Flamingos are filter feeders, and in that respect resemble whales and oysters more than they do most birds.
		Flamingoes, as I am informed, are abundant on the Island of Cuba, more especially on the southern side of some of its shores, and where many islets at some distance from the mainland afford them ample protection...
		Flamingos are divided into four species: Greater Flamingo: found in Africa, South Asia, Europe, Southern South America, and the West Indies.
	www.bestknows.com /bird/flamingo.html (351 words)

	Flamingos
		Lesser flamingos are the smallest of all of the species of flamingos.
		The Lesser flamingo is the most numerous of all of the species.
		The flamingos greatest predator is man because it is vulnerable to habitat destruction and exploitation.
	www.geocities.com /Petsburgh/1975/flamingo.html (765 words)

	Flamingo Park, Seaview, Isle of Wight - Lesser Flamingo
		The Lesser flamingo is the smallest and most abundant of all the six species.
		The Lesser flamingo has a life span of around twenty years in its natural habitat but has been known to live longer in captivity.
		NEGATIVE: Flamingos damage lagoons they live in by creating their nests; this process can actually lead to flooding when the soil is washed away.
	www.flamingoparkiw.com /flamingo/lesser.htm (279 words)

	Research and the Nigerian soybean industry
		The Lesser flamingoes were the first to begin their breeding and by the end of January, numbers reached over 80,000 birds at their main breeding colony.
		This is one of the largest breeding colonies of Lesser flamingo in the whole of Africa, being second in size only to the breeding colony on Lake Natron in Tanzania.
		However this year is proving to be a very valuable breeding season for both species of flamingoes and will help increase their population at a time when in other places, like East Africa, the Lesser flamingo, in particular are suffering devastating losses, due to a recent occurring killer disease.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2001/july/fbird.htm (563 words)

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