Aves · Phoenicopteriformes
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Filter-feeds upside-down through a sharply bent, comb-lined bill, pumping muddy water with its thick tongue to strain out tiny invertebrates and algae — pigments from that diet are what turn its plumage pink.
- Realm
- Coastal
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1396 licence-filtered records across 181 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (8)
- Data collected on citizen science web portal www.ornitho.cat (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Journeys within BiObserva program (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)