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Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)



Other names:
Afrikaans: Grootflamink
German: Flamingo
French: Flamant rose
Portuguese: Flamingo-comum
Dutch: Flamingo

The feeding flamingos were photographed at the Geelbek hide in West Coast National Park.

Well one should not be able to confuse a flamingo for any other bird and the most noticeable difference between the Greater and Lesser flamingos when they are not feeding together is the bill colour. Greater flamingo has a pinkish bill with a black tip whereas the bill of the Lesser Flamingo is an all dark red

Has anyone seen any flamingo's in Kruger lately?

Seen at my home patch... St Anderton

Very poor cropped pic but saw these at Matambene bird hide in Feb 2010.


days456 kruger 2110 518 by jansp, on Flickr

I saw a single Greater Flamingo from the Matambeni hide about 2 weeks ago .

Thank you Highbury. Will keep an eye out net time i'm there.