Chilean Flamingo
Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis)
Chilean Flamingo Quick Facts
- breeds in South America from Ecuador and Peru to Chile and Argentina and east to Brazil.
- lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound.
- live in large flocks in the wild and require crowded conditions to stimulate breeding.
- bill is equipped with comb-like structures that enable it to filter food—mainly algae and plankton—from the water
