A flamingo of high Andean lakes, it has a pale pink body and yellow legs and filters algae and other small food from the water.
It has a pale pink body and yellow legs. The bill is yellow at the base, with most of it black.
It gathers at high-altitude salt and alkaline lakes and filters algae and other small food from the water with its bill.
It nests in colonies that may include other flamingo species, building mud mounds with a hollow top. Both parents take turns incubating for about 27–31 days.
Chicks hatch in white to grey down and join nursery groups after about 5–8 days in the nest. A few adults guard the group, and parents find and feed their own chicks.
When the wings are folded, black flight feathers form a large triangle at the rear of the body.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.