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Atlantic Puffin
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Least ConcernSPECIES SPOTLIGHT
The Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
The largest of the flamingos, this tall pink wader filter-feeds in shallow salt lakes and lagoons. Its rosy colour comes from pigments in the algae and tiny crustaceans it eats, and it gathers in flocks that can number in the thousands.
- Population
- Increasing
- Region
- Africa, S. Europe & S. Asia
- Habitat
- Saline lakes & lagoons
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