PARINA GRANDE Phoenicoparrus andinus in Chile: Chilean flamingo, from 1, 10 to 1, 20 m tall, white fur, nuanced with a light pink, more intense on the front and neck. It lives in southern Peru, northwestern Argentina and northern Chile, to Chañaral, preferably in brackish lagoons from 2300 to 4500 meters. It feeds on phytoplankton (diatoms or single-celled algae) and zooplankton. The beak contains lamlae, interior structures that filter the food that lives in the mud of lagoons and high Andean lakes. When its beak is filled with water and expelled with its tongue, the food is retained in the tongue.
