Large birds with a very long neck and long legs. Front fingers connected plavatelnoy membrane. Beak large, curved in the middle of blunt angle; edge jaws, like a goose birds, horns usazheny thin plates; such a filter device allows the flamingos catch of mud and water of small invertebrates such as crustaceans that serve the basic foods that birds. Wing relatively narrow and sharp-tipped , Can fly only active flight, rather than steam as the storks. Large colonies of nesting in the marshy shores of lakes and inaccessible sea coasts (Ivanov, Shtegman, 1978). In the fauna of Russia, one family with one genus: Flamingo - Phoenicopterus L., 1758, and one species: Common flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas, 1811 (Stepanyan, 1990).

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