Flamingo vs Stink-Kassie

Phoenicopterus ruber compared with Senna occidentalis

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Flamingo	Stink-Kassie
Kingdom	Animalia (Tier)	Plantae (Pflanzen)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordatiere)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Aves (Vögel)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Phoenicopteriformes (Flamingos)	Fabales (Schmetterlingsblütenartige)
Family	Phoenicopteridae (Flamingos)	Fabaceae
Genus	Phoenicopterus (Flamingos)	Senna
Species	Phoenicopterus ruber	Senna occidentalis

Conservation Status

Flamingo

LC — Least Concern

Stink-Kassie

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Flamingo	Stink-Kassie
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Flamingo

Habitat

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

Range

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

Stink-Kassie

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, montane grasslands and shrublands, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 4 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Indomalayan realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (40 countries), Asia (19 countries), Europe (8 countries), North America (7 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (13 countries), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana).

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.