American Flamingo vs Ferny Azolla

Phoenicopterus ruber compared with Azolla pinnata

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	American Flamingo	Ferny Azolla
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Tracheophyta
Class	Aves (Birds)	Polypodiopsida (Polypodiopsida)
Order	Phoenicopteriformes (Flamingos)	Salviniales (Salviniales)
Family	Phoenicopteridae (Flamingos)	Salviniaceae
Genus	Phoenicopterus (Flamingos)	Azolla
Species	Phoenicopterus ruber	Azolla pinnata

Conservation Status

American Flamingo

LC — Least Concern

Ferny Azolla

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	American Flamingo	Ferny Azolla
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

American Flamingo

Habitat

Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Range

Found across Europe (10 countries) and South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela).

Ferny Azolla

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including deserts and xeric shrublands, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas spanning the Palearctic and Oceanian realms.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (4 countries), Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan), North America (Mexico, United States), and Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Tuvalu).

American Flamingo

The most vibrantly colored flamingo species, American flamingos display brilliant scarlet-pink plumage from the carotenoid pigments in their crustacean diet. Found in Caribbean coastal lagoons, salt pans, and mangrove swamps from the Bahamas and Florida through Central America and the Galapagos. Highly gregarious, they nest in huge colonies on mudflat mounds. Their distinctive deep pink color is used to signal health and reproductive quality to potential mates.