James's flamingo
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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)
- A small species of flamingo, Phoenicoparrus jamesi, endemic to the high Andean plateaux.
- 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 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.
Translations
Phoenicoparrus jamesi
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