Wildlife
Flamingos are wading birds with a very specialised diet - they filter feed, straining out tiny brine shrimps from the water with their specially evolved beaks and tongue.
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It may look as if a flamingo can bend its knee backwards but what you're seeing is actually its ankle.
Scientific name: Phoenicopterus
Rank: Genus
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Egg-laying extremes
Crab plovers and flamingos can both cope in extreme conditions.
Crab plovers and flamingos can both cope in extreme conditions.
The shading illustrates the diversity of this group - the darker the colour the greater the number of species. Data provided by WWF's Wildfinder.
Flamingos or flamingoes ( pronunciation (help·info)) are a type of wading bird in the genus Phoenicopterus (from Greek φοινικόπτερος meaning "purple wing"), the only genus in the family Phoenicopteridae. There are four flamingo species in the Americas and two species in the Old World.
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