Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Phoenicopteriformes > Phoenicopteridae > Phoenicoparrus > Phoenicoparrus jamesiPhoenicoparrus jamesi (Puna flamingo)Synonyms: Phoenicopterus jamesi; Phoenicopterus jamesi jamesi The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), also known as the puna flamingo, is a species of flamingo that populates the high altitudes of Andean plateaus of Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. It is named for Harry Berkeley James, a British naturalist who studied the bird. James's flamingo is closely related to the Andean flamingo, and the two make up the genus Phoenicoparrus. The Chilean flamingo, Andean flamingo and James's flamingo are all sympatric, and all live in colonies (including shared nesting areas). The James's flamingo was thought to have been extinct until a remote population was discovered in 1956. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 15.8874 EDGE Score: 3.51972 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 4.409 lbs (2.00 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Water Surface [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 1 | | Migration [4] | Intracontinental |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Atacama desert |
Chile |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Covire |
Peru |
A1, A3 |
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Lago Parinacochas |
Peru |
A1 |
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Lago Poopó y Río Laka Jahuira |
Bolivia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Lago Titicaca (Sector Boliviano) |
Bolivia |
A1, A2, A4i |
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Laguna El Peinado |
Argentina |
A1 |
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Laguna Grande |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Laguna Guayatayoc |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Laguna La Alumbrera |
Argentina |
A1 |
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Laguna Purulla |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Lagunas de Agua Dulce del Sureste de Potosí |
Bolivia |
A1 |
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Lagunas Runtuyoc: Los Enamorados |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Lagunas Salinas del Suroeste de Potosí |
Bolivia |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lagunillas |
Argentina |
A1 |
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Monumento Natural Laguna de Los Pozuelos |
Argentina |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Parque nacional Sajama |
Bolivia |
A1 |
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Reserva Biológica Cordillera de Sama |
Bolivia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Reserva de Uso Múltiple Bañados del Río Dulce y Laguna Mar Chiquita |
Argentina |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii |
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Reserva Provincial Laguna Brava |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Reserva Provincial Laguna de Llancanelo |
Argentina |
A1 |
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Reserva Provincial y de la Biosfera Laguna Blanca |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Río Tambo y Lagunas de Mejía |
Peru |
A1, A2, A3, A4iii |
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Salar del Hombre Muerto |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Sistema de Lagunas Los Aparejos, Azul y Negra |
Argentina |
A1, A4i |
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Sistema de lagunas de Vilama-Pululos |
Argentina |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and J Sargatal (eds.) Handbook of the birds of the world. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona Vols. 1-7 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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