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| Phoenicopterus ruber |
Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a large species (120-140cm)closely related to Greater Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo, with which it is sometimes considered conspecific. This article follows the treatment Ibis (2002) 144 707-710.
Like all flamingos it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound.
Most of the plumage is pink, giving rise to its earlier name of Rosy Flamingo and differentiating adults from the much whiter European species. The wing coverts[?] are red, and the primary and secondary flight feathers[?] are black. It is the only flamingo which naturally occurs in North America
The bill is pink with a restricted black tip, and the legs are entirely pink. The call is a goose-like honking.