Chilean flamingo
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| phylum | Chordata | The Chilean flamingo is a large species of flamingo closely related to the American flamingo and Greater flamingo, with which it was sometimes considered conspecific. It breeds in South America from Ecuador and Peru to Chile and Argentina and east to Brazil. It has been introduced into Germany and the Netherlands. There was also a small population in Utah and California. Like all flamingos it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| Class | Aves | |
| order | Phoenicopteriformes | |
| family | Phoenicopteridae | |
| genus | Phoenicopterus | |
| species | P. chilensis |
