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James's flamingo en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A small species of flamingo, Phoenicoparrus jamesi, endemic to the high Andean plateaux.
   • 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. 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 45:

Forms

Translations (3)

pl flaming krótkodzioby (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) · pl czerwonak krótkodzioby (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) · hu rövidcsőrű flamingó (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)