American Flamingo

Phoenicopterus ruber

American Flamingo photographed by Hassan
Port Saint Lucie

When to look

Reported most in January, across 104K open records.

Records by month. January, 11,500 records. February, 9,299 records. March, 8,324 records. April, 7,313 records. May, 6,715 records. June, 6,322 records. July, 7,610 records. August, 7,124 records. September, 10,243 records. October, 9,991 records. November, 9,514 records. December, 9,724 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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