James's flamingo

James's flamingo
In southwestern Bolivia
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Phoenicopteriformes
Family: Phoenicopteridae
Genus: Phoenicoparrus
Species:
P. jamesi
Binomial name
Phoenicoparrus jamesi
Range map
  Non-Breeding
  Year-round
  Breeding

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.

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]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Phoenicoparrus jamesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22697398A93612106. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697398A93612106.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Sclater, PL (1886). List of a Collection of Birds from the Province of Tarapaca, Northern Chili. pp. 395–404.
  4. ^ Mascitti, V. and Kravetz, F.O., "Bill Morphology of South American Flamingos". The Condor. 104(1), 73.
  5. ^ Johnson, A.W., Behn, F., and Millie, W.R. "The South American Flamingos". The Condor. 60(5), 289-99