A beautiful looking bird, pink in colour, standing between 1.1 & 1.3 m in height, with a wingspan of around 1.2 - 1.5m. The immature birds are actually grey before they get their full pink adult plumage. They have long, grey legs with pink knees. They also have a characteristic black bill curving downwards.

The Chilean Flamingo is native to South America, where they can be found at sea level. They prefer muddy shallow lakes where they can sweep their bills backwards and forwards, upside down in the water, picking up food as they go. They are classed as filter feeders as their tongue pumps up and down several times a second, siphoning the invertebrates out of the water. 

They live in colonies of between a few dozen birds to vast sizes of over a thousand birds. The Flamingo's have quite a coutship ritual consisting of a synchronised  dancing, preening, neck stretching and honking. They mate between April and May and lay one chalky white egg on a muddy mound resembling a nest on the waters edge.