James's flamingo

English

Etymology

Named for British naturalist Harry Berkeley James, who studied the bird.

Noun

James's flamingo (plural James's flamingos or James's flamingoes)

  1. A small species of flamingo, Phoenicoparrus jamesi, endemic to the high Andean plateaux.
    • 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide 2000, p. 45:
      At Bolivia's Laguna Colorado, so-called because of the blood-red tinge to the water, the world's largest population of James's flamingoes may be caught by unseasonable freezing, with birds trapped permanently in the ice.
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