James's flamingo, 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.
James's flamingo
Illustration by J. G. Keulemans (1886)
Comparison of bills of Andean flamingo (top) and James's flamingo (bottom)
Feeding at Laguna Hedionda, Bolivia.
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