- The Caribbean Flamingo, or Phoenicopterus ruber ruber, lives in salty lagoons, coastal/inland shallow lakes, and mud flats of the Northern and Southern islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and parts of northern South America.
- The Greater Flamingo, or Phoenicopterus ruber roseus, lives near streams, shallow salty lakes and alkaline lakes of northeastern, western, and southern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Middle East.
- The Chilean Flamingo, or Phoenicopterus chilensis, lives in salty or alkaline lakes or vegetation-free lagoons, mangrove swamps, tidal regions, and sandy islands of Central Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.
- The Lesser Flamingo, or Phoeniconaias minor, lives in alkaline lakes and salty flood plains of Spain, Oman, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran and throughout Africa.
- The Andean Flamingo, or Phoenicoparrus andinus, lives in high-altitude, salty or alkaline lakes of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Chile.
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