James's flamingo

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)

1. 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

• Hungarian: rövidcsőrű flamingó