The greater flamingo is the most widespread and largest species of the flamingo family. Common in the Old World, they are found in Northern (coastal) and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, the Levant, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe.
Greater flamingo
Egg at Cincinnati Zoo
Chick with gray down
Juvenile at Ghadira Nature Reserve, Malta
Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. There are four flamingo species distributed throughout the Americas, and two species native to Afro-Eurasia.
Flamingo
Many molecular and morphological studies support a relationship between grebes and flamingos.
American and Chilean flamingos in captivity
Flamingos in flight at Río Lagartos, Yucatán, Mexico