Chilean flamingo

Description

The Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a large species of flamingo at 110–130 cm (43–51 in) closely related to American flamingo and greater flamingo,with which it was sometimes considered conspecific.[3] The species is listed as near threatened by the IUCN.It breeds in South America from Ecuador and Peru to Chile and Argentina and east to Brazil;it has been introduced into Germany and the Netherlands (colony on the border,Zwillbrocker Venn).Also,a small population occurs in Utah and California.Like all flamingos,it lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound.