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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Puna Flamingos (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) - known locally as "Parina Chica" - this species is distinguished from the other 2 flamingo species found in the Andean Plateau by - red legs and feet, bright yellow bill with black tip (< 1/3 of total bill length), and the bare red skin patch around the eyes. Additionally, only the Puna & Andean Flamingos - display their black flight feathers when standing.
