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Greater flamingo


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  • Variants

    • American flamingo
    • Caribbean flamingo
    • Phoenicopterus antiquorum
    • Phoenicopterus roseus
    • Phoenicopterus ruber
    • Roseate flamingo
    • Rosy flamingo
    • Scarlet flamingo
    • West Indian flamingo
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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Rooth, J. The flamingos on Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) : habitat, diet and reproduction of Phoenicopterus ruber ruber, 1965(P. ruber ruber, West Indian flamingo)
    • found: Howard birds world(Phoenicopterus ruber, Greater flamingo. 2 subspecies, ruber and roseus)
    • found: Checklist of North American birds, 1983:p. 59 (Phoenicopterus ruber, Greater flamingo. "Known in Old World literature as the Flamingo. The Old World populations have often been considered a separate species, P. roseus; with that viewpoint, P. ruber would be called American flamingo.")
    • found: Sibley, C.G. Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world, 1990:p. 310 (Phoenicopterus ruber - Greater flamingo. = P. antiquorum. Subspecies: P. ruber ruber - American flamingo; P. ruber roseus - Greater flamingo (Rosy flamingo))
    • found: Terres, J.K. The Audubon Society encyc. of N. Am. birds, 1982:pp. 354-355 (American flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber. Other names: Greater flamingo; roseate flamingo; scarlet flamingo; West Indian flamingo; Caribbean flamingo.) p. 355 ("Greater flamingo: Common name, originally, for the Old World species Phoenicopterus antiquorum, but also the name for the American flamingo by those ornithologists who consider the Old World antiquorum and the American ruber to be not separate, but merely forms of the same species.")
    • found: Ehrlich, P.R. The birder's handbk., 1988:p. 44 (Greater flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber)
  • LC Classification

    • QL696.C56
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  • Change Notes

    • 1993-11-22: new
    • 1994-01-04: revised
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