Greater Flamingo

The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the most largest species of the flamingo family. It is found in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, India, The Middle East, and in Southern Europe.
Description
The Greater Flamingo is the largest living species of flamingo Most of the plumage is pinkish-white, but the wing coverts are red and the primary and secondary flight feathers are black. The beak is pink with a black tip, and the legs are entirely pink. The call is a goose-like honking.
Chicks are covered in gray fluffy down. Subadult flamingos are paler with dark legs.
Distribution
It is found in Africa Southern Asia India The Middle East and Southern Europe
Ecology
The greater flamingo resides in mudflats and shallow coastal lagoons with salt water. Using its feet, the bird stirs up the mud, then sucks water through its bill and filters out small shrimp, seeds, blue-green algae, microscopic organisms, and mollusks. The greater flamingo feeds with its head down, and its upper jaw is movable and not rigidly fixed to its skull.
Like all flamingos, this type of species lays a single white egg on a mud mound.
Threats and predators
Adult greater flamingos have few natural predators. Eggs and chicks may be eaten by raptors, crows, gulls, and the marabou stork a predation of greater flamingo eggs and chicks is from the yellow-legged gull.
File:Flamingo Chick.jpg|Flamingo Chick
File:The juvenile greater flamingo.jpg|Juvenile
File:Greater Flamingo In Flight.jpg|Greater Flamingo In Flight