James's flamingo
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James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), also known as the puna flamingo, is a species of flamingo that lives at high altitudes in the Andean plateaus of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and northwest Argentina.
James's flamingo | |
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In southwestern Bolivia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Phoenicopteriformes |
Family: | Phoenicopteridae |
Genus: | Phoenicoparrus |
Species: | P. jamesi |
Binomial name | |
Phoenicoparrus jamesi (Sclater, PL, 1886)[3] | |
Range map Non-Breeding Year-round Breeding |
It is named for Harry Berkeley James, a British naturalist who studied the bird. James's flamingo is closely related to the Andean flamingo, and the two species are the only members of the genus Phoenicoparrus. The Chilean flamingo, Andean flamingo, and James's flamingo are all sympatric, and all live in colonies (including shared nesting areas).[4] James's flamingo had been thought to be extinct until a population was discovered in a remote area in 1956.[5]