American Flamingo
Phoenicopterus ruber
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Family
- Phoenicopteridae
- Genus
- Phoenicopterus
- eBird Code
- grefla2
Distribution
Caribbean region including coastal Yucatan Peninsula and coastal northern South America, and disjunctly in Galapagos
Subspecies (2)
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Phoenicopterus ruber glyphorhynchus
Galapagos
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Phoenicopterus ruber ruber
Caribbean region, including coastal Yucatan Peninsula, and coastal northern South America to northeastern Brazil
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.