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Phoenicopterus ruber Salt lakes, brackish shallow lagoons, mudspits. - P. r. roseus Along Mediterranean and nw African coasts in s Spain, s France (Camargue), Turkey, s Morocco, sw Mauritania, Tunisia and ne Egypt; Arabia; ne Caspian Sea, lakes in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, se Afghanistan, Pakistan in Sind, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.  Senegambia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Burundi, Uganda, sw Kenya, n Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and S. Africa; w,s Madagascar; Seychelles, Aldabra, Comores. ---                         -  P. r. ruber   Locally in Galapagos Is.; se Mexico on the Yucatán Peninsula; Cuba, Hispaniola probably incl. Gonâve and Beata islands; s Bahamas on Acklins I. and Great Inagua; Bonaire I. in the Netherlands Antilles; and ne Colombia in Magdalena and Guajira. -         -- -

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Phoenicopterus minor Brackish shallows, mudspits, salt lakes.  Local in sw Mauritania, Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Gabon, Rift Valley in c Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Yemen, ne Zaire, Burundi, Uganda, w Kenya, sw Tanzania, Malawi, n Zambia, Angola, cn Namibia, Zimbabwe, c Botswana, Mozambique and c,s S. Africa; Madagascar.  Presumably breeding in Pakistan and nw India e to Ganges plain, Orissa and Gujarat. the South African and East African List Committees prefer to place this species in Phoeniconaias( --           - -                          - -                   - D. A. Turner, pers. comm.).

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-	Phenicopterus ruber Greater Flamingo -  Localized has bred:  Algeria, Kwait

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Phenicopterus minor Lesser Flamingo - Vagrant w.Europe, Morocco

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