American flamingo
Phoenicopterus ruber / American flamingo
- Habitat
- Lagoons and salt sinks
- Continent
- Nordamerika
- Food
- Plankton such as small crustaceans, insects and worms
- Gestation/breeding period
- about 29 days
- Mode of life
- Huge colonies with up to 20,000 breeding pairs
- Class
- Birds
- Order
- Flamingos
Did you know that?
~ 1,60 m
size
2 - 4 kg
weight
~ 50 years
age
How endangered are American flamingos?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
-
Least concern Least concern - Near threatened
- Vulnerable
- Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
By the way
The American flamingo´s nests are self-made mud cones up to half a metre high.
American flamingo at the zoo tour
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