DESCRIPTION: The Andean flamingo is both the most rare and tallest of all six species of flamingo. It has a traditional pink coloration throughout its body, with a pale yellow face and black tail ...

The big, beautiful Andean flamingo is one of three flamingo species native to the Andes. A relatively long-lived bird, this flamingo can travel vast distances — from 200 to more than 700 miles in a ...

A flamingo was spotted on a Cape Cod beach in Dennis on Sunday afternoon — a “monumentally rare” sighting, said Mark Faherty, a science coordinator at the Mass Audubon on Cape Cod.

These flamingos – the largest and pinkest of the five species – also use their time in the estuary to engage in synchronous courtship dancing as a prelude to breeding. To get the aerial shot that he ...

Without improved lake monitoring and catchment management practices, the highly specialized species found in soda lake ecosystems—including lesser flamingos—could be lost," he said.

Lesser flamingos are the most numerous of the six species of flamingo found across the world, and more than three-quarters are found in the soda lakes of Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Despite ...