Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) feeding crop milk to chick, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, July. Bookplate.

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) courtship display, Ria Celestun Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, January. Bookplate.

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) flock moving to other parts of the lagoon in search of food, Ria Celestun Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, January. Bookplate.

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) courtship display, Ria Celestun Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, January

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) feeding crop milk to chick, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick stretching wings, watched by adult, at nest in breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick stretching wings on nest in breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) standing on nest in breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, July

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) adults and chicks in breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) feeding crop milk to chick, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick peering from under the wing of protective parent, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June. Bookplate.

John Shaw / James' flamingo / Puna flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi). Lago Colorado, Bolivia. March.

Francisco Marquez / Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juveniles and a few adults kept temporarily in an enclosure for ringing, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Francisco Marquez / Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juveniles and a few adults kept temporarily in an enclosure for ringing, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Francisco Marquez / Volunteers rounding up Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juveniles for ringing, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Francisco Marquez / Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) flock silhouetted in wetland, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) building up mud whilst brooding egg, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, Finalist in the Portfolio Category of...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) feeding three day old chick at breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, June, Finalist in the Portfolio Category of t...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) rolling egg to side in the nest, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, June, Finalist in the Portfolio Category of the Terre Sauvag...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June. Finalist in the Portfolio Category of the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick under the wing of protective parent, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June.Finalist in the Portfolio Category...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick age three days, standing in nest, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, Finalist in the Portfolio Category o...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick creche in front of attentive adult flamingo group, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, Finalist in the Por...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick age 5 days, walking around nest, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, Finalist in the Portfolio Category of...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) sleeping in the breeding colony, brooding egg, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, Finalist in the Portfolio Category of the Terr...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) tending to newborn chick while another feed two day old chick, breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, Finalist in t...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) chick group walking around the breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June, Finalist in the Portfolio Category of the Ter...

Claudio Contreras / Aerial view of Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, May, Finalist in the Portfolio Category of the Terre Sauvage Nature...

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) preening chick in the breeding colony, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, June Finalist in the Portfolio Category of the Terre Sauvage...

Tui De Roy / American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) group of four with one displaying Punta Moreno, Isabela Island, Galapagos

Bernard Castelein / Puna / James flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) taking off from Laguna Hedionda, between Polques and Quetena, altiplano, Bolivia September

Andres M. Dominguez / Greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus), Dehesa de Abajo, Sevilla, Spain, August.

David Pattyn / European flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) bathing Camargue, France, May.

Bence Mate / Greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) with necks intertwined, Pont De Gau Park, Rhone River, France. February.

Bence Mate / Great flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) group in flight, Pont De Gau Park, Rhone River, France.

Bence Mate / Great flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) feeding in sludge at bottom of river, Pont De Gau Park, Rhone River, France.

Bence Mate / Great flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) with beak covered in mud after feeding, Pont De Gau Park, Rhone River, France.

Roland Seitre / Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) group of three in flight, Chile.

Roland Seitre / Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) flock in flight, Delta del Ebro, Amposta, Catalunya, Spain.

Roland Seitre / Lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) flock, Djoudj National Park, St Louis du Senegal, Senegal

Roland Seitre / Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) flock in flight, Delta del Ebro, Amposta, Catalunya, Spain.

Gerrit Vyn / American Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) perform elaborate marchlike courtship displays, Celestun Biosphere Reserve, Yucutan, Mexico. February.

Claudio Contreras / Caribbean flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) adult feeding chick, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula Mexico, June. Winner of the CONABIO Nature Photography Competition 2015.

Pete Oxford / Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in Lago Azul with Torres del Paine, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.

Chris Mattison / Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) group of three in flight, Lago Amarga , Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.

Denis-Huot / Lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) flock in the mist, Lake Nakuru, Kenya. March.