page_title: Chilean flamingo
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Chilean flamingo / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Chilean flamigo pruning itself
context_page_description: The Chilean flamingo is a species of large flamingo at 110–130 cm closely related to American flamingo and greater flamingo, with which it was sometimes considered conspecific. The species is listed as near threatened by the IUCN.
  It breeds in South America from Ecuador and Peru to Chile and Argentina and east to Brazil; it has been introduced into Germany and the Netherlands. Like all flamingos, it lays a single chalky-white egg on a mud mound.
  These flamingos are mainly restricted to salt lagoons and soda lakes but these areas are vulnerable to habitat loss and water pollution.
context_section_description: The plumage is pinker than the slightly larger greater flamingo, but less so than the Caribbean flamingo. It can be differentiated from these species by its grayish legs with pink joints (tibiotarsal articulation), and also by the larger amount of black on the bill (more than half). Young chicks may have no sign of pink coloring whatsoever, but instead remain gray.
caption: One preening itself
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