- Breed Name: Flamingo
- Phylum: Chordata
- Family: Phoenicopteridae; Bonaparte, 1831
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Order: Phoenicopteriformes
- Class: Aves
- They are a type of wading birds
- Sub-Species. Six extant flamingo species are recognized. Four of them are distributed throughout the Americas and Caribbean, and two species are native to Africa, Asia, and Europe:
- American Flamingo
- Chilean Flamingo
- Greater Flamingo
- James’s Flamingo
- Roseate Spoonbil
- Mirandornithus
- Speed: James’s flamingo: 60 km/h
- Length: Lesser flamingo: 90 – 100 cm
- Height:
- Greater flamingo: 1 – 1.5 m
- Lesser flamingo: 80 – 90 cm
- James’s flamingo: 91 cm
- Mass:
- Greater flamingo: 2 – 4 kg
- Lesser flamingo: 2 – 2.7 kg
- James’s flamingo: 2 kg
- Feeding: Flamingos filter-feed on brine shrimp and blue-green algae as well as insect larvae, small insects, mollusks and crustaceans making them omnivores