Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Greater Flamingo

  FAMILY -               Phoenicopteridae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Phoenicopterus ruber

  REFERENCES - 1

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  Occasional record(s) every few years                       7
  Accidental-Bze not part of normal range.                   3
  Accidental-Bze not part of normal range.                   6
  U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty                                 5
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Corozal                                                              4
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Shipstern Nature Reserve                                                    4
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15'           4
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  7* Occasional mangroves lowlands & coastal beaches.
     Occasional cayes inc. Ambergris.
  3* Accidental, fewer than five records, mangroves and beaches along the
     coast of the mainland and cayes including Ambergris Cay.

  References

  1  A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed.
  
  2  A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements.
  
  3  Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of
     Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12.
  
  4  Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature
     Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society.
     2(10). pp. 71-81.
  
  5  Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List
     of Migratory Birds.  U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794.
     (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird
     Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711).
  
  6  Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize,
     Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern.  Report to Programme for
     Belize/TNC Wings of America Program.
  
  7  Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of
     the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.