Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
Andean Flamingo
Phoenicoparrus andinus
- legendaris
- 50 km/h
- Rentan
The only flamingo with yellow feet. Filters algae at 14,000 feet in Andean salt lakes where almost nothing else survives.
- Populasi
- No precise current figure; historically ~34,000–38,700 (2010 international simultaneous census counted 38,675), down from an estimated 50,000–100,000 in the mid-1980s to ~34,000 by the mid-1990s, possibly stabilizing 1997–2010 — the overall population size has not been precisely quantified due to high survey uncertainty
- Habitat
- High-altitude Andean salt lakes and alkaline lagoons with soft sediment bottoms, roughly 2,300–4,950 m (typically 3,500–4,500 m); moves to lower-elevation wetlands in winter
- Fakta menarik
- The Andean Flamingo is the only flamingo species with yellow legs and a distinctive red spot between its nostrils, and it breeds colonially by the thousands at remote highland salt lakes, where chicks are raised communally in large groups called crèches.
- Sebaran
- High Andean plateaus of southern Peru, northern Chile, southwestern Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina, breeding at sites such as Laguna Colorada, Laguna de Salinas, and Salar de Atacama
- Makanan
- Filter-feeds mainly on diatoms and blue-green algae, plus small invertebrates, straining sediment at the water-sediment interface with its deep, downward-curved lower mandible
- Ukuran
- 1,2 m
- Bentang sayap
- 1,5 m
- Masa hidup
- 25 tahun
