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    The lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) is a species of flamingo occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and western India. Birds are occasionally reported from...
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    Flamingos or flamingoes (/fləˈmɪŋɡoʊz/) are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes...
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    1956. The James's flamingo is smaller than the Andean flamingo, and is about the same size as the Old World species, the lesser flamingo. A specimen of the...
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    neighbouring dwellers, jeopardising endangered lesser flamingo birds. Lake Natron is where two-thirds of lesser flamingos reproduce. Producing soda ash involves...
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    international significance. It is the only regular breeding area for Africa's lesser flamingoes, although this habitat is not protected and is under threat from planned...
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    soda lakes also provide the main food source for vast flocks of the lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor). The cyanobacteria of the genus Arthrospira (formerly...
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    the main food sources for its plentiful lesser flamingos. The dam typically supports 20,000 lesser flamingos, but occasionally over 50,000 individuals...
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    Phoeniconaias is a genus of birds in the flamingo family Phoenicopteridae. The genus contains one extant species, the lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor), occurring...
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    1996, the mangrove swamps of Sewri were declared a protected ecology. Lesser flamingos from other parts of India come to these mangroves to breed. The coastal...
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    is periodically home to one of the world's largest populations of lesser flamingos. The lake is a Ramsar site and Lake Bogoria National Reserve has been...
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    Xenorhynchopsis (category Flamingos)
    being described as having reached a size smaller than that of the lesser flamingo. X. tibialis meanwhile appears to have been restricted to Pleistocene...
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  • northeastern Tanzania, is often inhabited by thousands of mainly lesser flamingoes. The lake's name comes from the word for salty in the Maasai language...
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  • Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos is a 2008 nature documentary that explores the great gathering of lesser flamingos which occurs every year at Lake...
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    klipspringer, baboon, blue monkey, black-and-white colobus, greater flamingo, lesser flamingo, sacred ibis, Maccoa duck, Egyptian goose, turaco, Narina trogon...
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  • flamingo, the American flamingos and Chilean flamingos with both, as well the zoo's greater and lesser flamingos, being successfully bred. This exhibit has...
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    flamingo species: the lesser flamingo (shorter and lighter) and the greater flamingo (taller and darker). The lesser flamingos are more commonly pictured...
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    flamingoes in Thane creek. The greater flamingo and lesser flamingo are the two flamingo species present in the sanctuary. Alongside the flamingoes,...
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  • Phoeniconaias proeses (category Flamingos)
    age. P. proeses was one of the smallest species of flamingo, smaller than the modern lesser flamingo which it may be related to. Phoeniconaias proeses...
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    Important Bird Area by BirdLife International; the key species are lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor), glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), Eurasian...
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    housed in this part of the zoo include black swans, Muscovy ducks, lesser flamingos and Dalmatian pelicans. Located nearby is a small enclosure housing...
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    Phoenicopteriformes (category Flamingos)
    /fiːnɪˈkɒptərɪfɔːrmiːz/ is a group of water birds which comprises flamingos and their extinct relatives. Flamingos (Phoenicopteriformes) and the closely related grebes...
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    many water birds, including the demoiselle crane (Grus virgo) and lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor). The history of the Rann of Kutch began with...
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  • tern Lesser cuckoo Lesser cuckooshrike Lesser elaenia Lesser fish eagle Lesser flamingo Lesser florican Lesser frigatebird Lesser goldfinch Lesser grass...
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    "Homecoming for lesser flamingos in Sewri". Times of India. Retrieved 30 November 2018. "Mumbai's Sewri mudflats must await pink-feathered flamingos". 23 December...
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  • extinct species of flamingo that lived in northern Thailand during the Miocene period. Its closest living relative is the lesser flamingo. Phoeniconaias siamensis...
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  • consume and, uniquely, are used upside-down. Greater flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus (Ex)(A) Lesser flamingo, Phoeniconaias minor (A) Order: Columbiformes   Family:...
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    herons, marabou storks, yellow-billed stork, spotted thick-knees, lesser flamingo, shoebills, abdim's stork, hamerkops, hadada ibis, african fish eagles...
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    hornbill Western long-tailed hornbill Hamerkop Shoebill Greater flamingo Lesser flamingo Saddle-billed stork Black-crowned crane Wattled crane African sacred...
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    terns also occur in large numbers. The greater flamingo is a regular wading bird, with lesser flamingo present in lower numbers, and vagrant openbills...
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    populations. Lake Manyara National Park is known for flocks of thousands flamingos that feed along the edge of the lake in the wet season. At times, there...
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