Beautiful birds

 American Flamingo

Scientific Classification

Scientific Name  - Phoenicopterus ruber

Domain                - Eukaryota

Kingdom              - Animalia

Phylum                - Chordata

Class                     - Aves

Order                   - Phoenicopteriformes

Family                 - Phoenicopteridae

Genus                  - Phoenicopterus

Species                -P.ruber

The American flamingo is a large species of flamingo closely related to the greater flamingo and chilean flamingo native to the Neotropics. It was formerly considered conspecific with the greater flamingo, but that treatment is now widely viewed as incorrect due to a lack of evidence. It is also known as the Carribbean flamingo, although it is also present in the Galapagos islands. It is the only flamingo that naturally inhabits North America.

The American flamingo is native to Mexico, the Carribbean, and the northernmost tip of South America. It is also occasionally seen in Florida and along the Gulf Coast as a vargant. The American flamingo doesn't breed in the United States. An average adult is 5 feet ( 1.5m ) tall and weighs 4 -8 pounds ( 1.8 - 3.6kg ). The American flamingo has a wingspan of about 5 feet. As well as American flamingo has pink feathers and black - tipped wings. It has a very long neck, long pink legs and webbed pink feet with three toes. It has a large hooked bill with a black tip that is curved down. Flamingos are generally long lived, surviving for an average of 20 to 30 years, though some have lived up to 50 years.

With wild - caught flamingos, these are several reports of bacterial diseases and septicamia occurring in birds in quarantime. Bacterial isolates from these cases included Salmonella typhimuruim, E.coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomona spp. Asperigillosis has also been documented in quarantined flamingos. Flamingos help to ecosystem. Flamingos feed in shallow bodies of water, and often use their large feet to stir organisms from the bottom up into the water column. This activity likely contributes to sufficient oxygenation and mixing of organic material within these bodies of water, and aids in avoiding anoxic conditions.

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