Birds - Chile
These feathered images comprise the summer months, zig-zagging the longest north to south country on Earth. My educational journey along the western slopes of the Andes and the nearby, Pacific Ocean shoreline - from the Big Island of the Land of Fire (Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego), northward thru the Patagonia Ice Fields, Magellanic Subpolar Forest, Valdivian Temperate Forest, Matorral (scrubland), and to the Atacama Desert and high Central Andean plateaus.
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Andean Flamingo - this species is the largest (of the 4 species) of South American flamingos - standing about 4.6 ft. (1.4 m) tall - a wingspan reaching about 5.4 ft. (1.6 m) - and weighing up to around 9 lb. (4 kg).