James's flamingo

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James's flamingo

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Named for British naturalist Harry Berkeley James, who studied the bird.

noun James's flamingos · James's flamingoes

A small species of flamingo, Phoenicoparrus jamesi, endemic to the high Andean plateaux. At Bolivia's Laguna Colorado, so-called because of the blood-red tinge to the water, the world's largest population of James's flamingoes may be caught by unseasonable freezing, with birds trapped permanently in the ice.
Similar: puna flamingo

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@misc{james_s_flamingo_2026,
  title = {James's flamingo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/james's%20flamingo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}