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Own every animal of the family Phoenicopteridae.
“All Phoenicopteridae” is an album of the Animals theme of Cartopédie. You complete it by opening packs and trading your duplicates with other players.
The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Phoenicopteridae
Phoenicopterus ruber · Least concern
Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia: hurricanes have driven American flamingos that far north, for rare sightings. Most return home, but now and then one breaks off from its flock and lives alone for years. Florida's flamingos were largely wiped out by 1900.
Photo: Adrian Pingstone (Public domain)
Phoenicopteridae
Phoenicopterus roseus · Least concern
The greater flamingo owes its pink colour to pigments in the tiny organisms of its feeding grounds. The largest flamingo, it stands 110 to 150 cm tall. It lays a single egg, but can lay another if that one is lost. A small feral flock of zoo escapees breeds in western Germany, near the Dutch border.
Photo: El Golli Mohamed (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Phoenicopteridae
Phoenicopterus chilensis · Near threatened
A Chilean flamingo can live up to 50 years in the wild, which makes it one of the longest-lived birds. It was once lumped as a subspecies with the American and greater flamingos, before being recognised as its own species, paler and smaller. Chicks are not born pink: the colour builds up slowly as carotenoid pigments from their food collect in their feathers.
Photo: Cláudio Dias Timm from Rio Grande do Sul (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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