Flamingo in red lagoon, Bolivia
The Andean flamingo is one of the rarest flamingos in the world. It lives in the Andes mountains of South America. Andean flamingo foraging in a red lagoon in Bolivia. This Andean flamingo is native to the wetlands of the high Andes mountain range from southern Perú to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile. The Andean flamingo is a migratory bird with the ability to travel up to 700 miles in one day. In the summer, they live in salt lakes and migrate to the lower wetlands for the winter. The cause of this migration from summer to winter is possibly due to the extreme aridity of salt-ï¬âats during the winter. The path of migration is unknown, but it is thought to occur between the Chilean breeding grounds and the wetlands of central and western Argentina.
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