Puna flamingo  (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Range

The puna flamingo occupies a small range in the Andes, from the southern tip of Peru through western Bolivia and northwestern Argentina to northern Chile (2).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

This highly specialised bird inhabits the salt lakes of the high Andean planes, choosing only those with a soft substrate. It breeds on islands or islets of soft clay or sand, as well as along the shorelines of salt lakes (2).

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