Profile
In flight
Cranes & Waders
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
- legendary
- 72 km/h
- Least Concern
The pale pink giant of South Asian salt flats, wading in slow synchronized armies through water it filters with its head upside down. A whole wetland in one silhouette.
- Population
- large, roughly 550,000 to 680,000 individuals globally
- Habitat
- saline lagoons, salt pans, estuaries, alkaline lakes, coastal mudflats
- Diet
- brine shrimp, blue-green algae, diatoms, small mollusks and crustaceans
- Size
- 1.3 m
- Wingspan
- 1.55 m
