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Check out the latest information about Flamingos in this update from Winged Wonders Inc. We will explore every type of flamingo and what makes each one unique. Please subscribe to continue learning what makes life AWESOME: BioBush.tv/sub...
This product update covers the entire flamingo line, including Greater, Lesser, American, Andean, Chilean, and Puna Flamingos. We discuss what general traits are shared by all flamingos, and how to identify each of the six flamingo species!
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Photo "Andean Flamingo, Salar de Chalviri, Bolivia (14511065680)" by Dimitry B., via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikime.... Used under Creative Commons cc-by 2.0.
Photo "James Flamingo" by Iain and Sarah, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikime.... Used under Creative Commons cc-by 2.0.
Photo "James's Flamingo MC" by Christian Mehlführer, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikime.... Used under Creative Commons cc-by 3.0.
Photo "James's Flamingo mating ritual" by Pedro Szekely, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikime.... Used under Creative Commons cc-by 2.0.
Photo "Phoenicopterus jamesi -Laguna Canapa -Bolivia-8" by Iain and Sarah, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikime.... Used under Creative Commons cc-by 2.0.
Photo "Phoenicoparrus jamesi, Laguna Hedionda, Nor Lípez, Bolivia 2" by Pavel Špindler, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikime.... Used under Creative Commons cc-by 3.0.
Photo "Flamencos (166218681)" by Daniele Zanni, via Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikime.... Used under Creative Commons cc-by 3.0.
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@pyro-millie5533 Год назад

This is excellent. The PSA had me cackling. I had no idea there were US-native flamingos! And all these different species are so beautiful!

@BioBush Год назад

One fact that didn't make the video but is nice to know about Flamingos, is that they are in the group Phoenicopteriformes, literally the Phoenix-wing-shaped birds. It's a small group of six species, but so much to appreciate in terms of beauty and interesting biology. Thanks for watching!

@maryrosekent8223 Год назад

Hi Steve! There was once an escapee American Flamingo in the eastern part of San Francisco Bay. It was the most interesting stray I’ve ever seen.

@BioBush Год назад

That's fun. Did you add that to your list of California species? AMFL. :) There was an escaped flamingo in Texas that just took up residence for 14 years. Band number 492 became a local celebrity. Thanks for watching, Mary Rose!

@maryrosekent8223 Год назад

@@BioBush I wasn’t a birder at that time, but it is on the life list that I keep on Excel…this was long before eBird.

@indyreno2933 Год назад

Interestingly, the closest living relatives of the flamingos are the penguins, they have similarities such as bristly tongues and living in groups called colonies or rookeries, both constitute the mirorder Phoenicopterospheniscae of the grandorder Procellariimorphae within the superorder Aequornithes, Aequornithes contains all extant waterbirds other than waterfowl (order Anseriformes), Aequornithes is divided into three major groups, which are the grandorders Gruicharadriae, Ciconiopelecanae, and Procellariimorphae, Gruicharadriae contains the orders Gruiformes (Cranes, Limpkin, Trumpeters, Rails, Crakes, Sora, Gallinules, Nativehens, Swamphens, Moorhen, Watercock, Coots, Finfoots, Flufftails, Woodrails, and Forest Rails) and Charadriiformes (Shorebirds), Ciconiopelecanae contains the orders Ciconiiformes (Storks, Herons, Egrets, Bitterns, Ibises, and Spoonbills) and Pelecaniformes (Pelicans, Cormorants, Shags, Darters, Frigatebirds, Boobies, Gannets, Tropicbirds, Shoebill, Hamerkop, Sunbittern, and Kagu), and Procellariimorphae is divided three mirorders, the three mirorders of Procellariimorphae are Procellariae, which contains only the order Procellariiformes (Petrels, Shearwaters, Fulmars, Prions, Albatrosses, and Storm Petrels), Gaviopodicipedae, which contains the orders Podicipediformes (Grebes) and Gaviiformes (Loons), and Phoenicopterospheniscae, which contains the orders Phoenicopteriformes (Flamingos) and Sphenisciformes (Penguins).

@BioBush Год назад

Thanks for sharing, Indy! I think the thing I learned most from this is how many levels of classification there are. I have never heard of mirorders or grandorders before. As always, classifying animals remains a perpetual challenge, because our systems of classification are not as complicated as real life. :)

@marcopohl4875 Год назад

Off topic question, but still biology related: I've seen some videos about how fish aren't technically a clade (because bony fish are more closely related to us than to sharks, so if they were a clade they would include us), I've had an idea for how to "solve" this and was wondering if it made any sense. My idea was to consider fish that are closly related to landvertabrets (like lungfish or ceolocanth) to be in their own clade (my suggestion for a name would be "protopod"), seperate from the other fish. Because saying "a ceolocanth is not a fish, it's a protopod" would make more sense in my opinion than saying "a bird is a fish". Would that work?

@BioBush Год назад

Hi Marco! Unfortunately there's no easy way to make fishes be a monophyletic clade as long as "fish" includes sharks, because monophyletic means it has a common ancestor with ALL its descendants, so tetrapods have to be included among the descendants of the common ancestor of cartilaginous and bony fish. If you broke off lampreys/hagfish, cartilaginous fishes, a bunch of different extinct ancestors, AND coelocanths/lungfish each into their own group, and just said that bony fish are the only fish, then fishes would be monophyletic. :) Interestingly, that definition of fish has almost as many species as the current definition of fish.

@marcopohl4875 Год назад

@@BioBush Meaning there is no way to deifne protopods without them being descendend from the common ancestor of fish?

@BioBush Год назад

@@marcopohl4875 Check out the tree at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish. The smallest branch which contains lungfishes and coelocanths is the one labeled Sarcopterygii, and it also contains a bunch of non-fishes. Oh, and my suggestion above isn't even right. "Bony fish" isn't narrow enough. We would need to make "fish" mean Actinopterygii, the ray-finned bony fishes, to get a monophyletic fish clade.

@marcopohl4875 Год назад

@@BioBush Thanks, I was looking for such a tree for this (didn't check the most obvious place). I see how my idea doesn't work.

@indyreno2933 Год назад

Actually, Sarcopterygii is monophyletic without tetrapods, both lobe-finned fish (class Sarcopterygii) and tetrapods (clade Tetrapoda) belong to the unranked clade Neoteleostomi, which excludes ray-finned fish (class Actinopterygii).