Lesser Flamingo
Phoeniconaias minor(Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É, 1798)
English (US) Lesser Flamingo
The Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Phoenicopteridae (Flamingos) in the order Phoenicopteriformes.
Range: locally from Africa and Madagascar to far northwestern India (mainly Gujarat)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phoeniconaias minor
- Order
- Phoenicopteriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Lesser Flamingo
- Described by
- (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É, 1798)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Phoenicopterus minor
- Described by
- (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É, 1798)
- Type locality
- No type locality given = Senegal.
- Original description
- Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomathique de Paris 1(1791-1799) no.13(March 1798) p.98,pl. fig.1,2,3
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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