Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
Digiscoped with Panasonic DMC-LX5 | Nikon FieldScope III | 30XWA | hand-held (no adapter).
Flamingos are filter feeders using their fleshy tongues to pumping water through the bill strainers. This species is widespread but classified as "near threatened" by IUCN. Declines have been attributed to egg harvesting, hunting, disturbance and degradation of their habitat.
References:
Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/chifla1
del Hoyo, J., Boesman, P. & Garcia, E.F.J. (2018). Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/52786 on 2 February 2018).