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English Greater Flamingo
Scientific (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Order PHOENICOPTERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Phoenicopteridae
Family (English) Flamingos
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions PAL, AF
Breeding Range Subregions widespread in Africa and sw, sc Eurasia
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus, Botswana,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Djibouti, Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,France,Gabon,Gambia,Gibraltar,Greece, Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Ivory Coast, Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya, Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Malta,Mauritania,Mauritius,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Namibia, Niger,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Reunion,Romania, Russia,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa, South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Switzerland,Syria,Tanzania,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan, Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,Uzbekistan,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Pallas, 1811
German Rosaflamingo
French Flamant rose
Chinese 大红鹳
Japanese オオフラミンゴ
Russian Розовый фламинго
Spanish Flamenco común
Portuguese flamingo-rosado
Bird Data App text Slightly larger and generally paler than the [Lesser Flamingo] and more widely distributed. Compare bills for identification.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)