Chilean flamingo
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Chilean flamingo parents find their own chicks by recognizing their calls.
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Chilean flamingo parents find their own chicks by recognizing their calls.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Chilean flamingo
- Scientific name
- Phoenicopterus chilensis
- Japanese name
- チリーフラミンゴ
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Family
- Phoenicopteridae
- Genus
- Phoenicopterus
A flamingo of South America. It lives at salt lakes and on coasts, and even high in the Andes mountains.
The edges of its bill are lined with fine, comb-like parts, so it can take in mud and strain out just the food.
Pigments in its food turn its feathers pink. Without those pigments, its feathers become whitish.
How the Chilean flamingo lives
During the day, they spend time along the edges of lakes and rivers. They sweep their heads from side to side near the water surface to find food. When resting, they face into the wind to keep wind and rain from getting beneath their feathers. At breeding time, they build nests with a hollow using damp soil.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web札幌市円山動物園Basic data
- Size
- Length: 79–145 cmWingspan: 127–153 cmUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Weight
- 2,500–3,500 gUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Active
- By day (diurnal)University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Diet
- Aquatic insects, crustaceans, algae, plant seeds and other foods札幌市円山動物園
- Range
- Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, southern Brazil, southern Peru and Bolivia札幌市円山動物園
Where the Chilean flamingo has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- チリーフラミンゴ
- 简体中文
- 智利火烈鸟
- 繁體中文
- 智利火烈鳥
- 한국어
- 칠레홍학
- Español
- Flamenco chileno
- Français
- Flamant du Chili
- Deutsch
- Chileflamingo
- Português (Brasil)
- Flamingo-chileno
- Italiano
- Fenicottero del Cile
- العربية
- نحام تشيلي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Flamingo chili
- Tiếng Việt
- Hồng hạc Chile
- Русский
- Чилийский фламинго
- Türkçe
- Şili flamingosu
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 札幌市円山動物園 — チリーフラミンゴChecked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Phoenicopterus chilensisChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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