Editing Andean flamingo (section)

==Distribution, habitat, and movements==
This Andean flamingo is native to the wetlands of the high [[Andes]] mountain range from southern Peru to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile.  Andean flamingos are [[bird migration|migratory]], with the ability to travel up to 700 miles in one day. In the summer, they live in salt lakes, and migrate to the lower wetlands for the winter.<ref name=caziani2007>Caziani, S. M., O. R. Olivio, et al. (2007). "Seasonal distribution, abundance, and nesting of Puna, Andean, and Chilean flamingos." Condor109(2): 276-287.</ref> The cause of this migration from summer to winter is possibly due to the extreme aridity of salt flats during the winter.<ref name=bucher1992>Bucher, E. 1992. "Population and Conservation Status of flamingos in Mar Chiquita, Cordoba, Argentina." Colonial Waterbirds 15(2):179-184.</ref> The path of migration is unknown, but it is thought to occur between the Chilean breeding grounds and the wetlands of central and western Argentina.<ref name=bucher1992/>

Breeding is concentrated in northern Chile, extreme southwestern Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina. During the nonbreeding season, some birds remain around the same wetlands where they bred, but others move to lower elevation wetlands and lakes, including east to the central plains of Argentina, and also north through the Andes to southern Peru.

Vagrant as far north as Conococha in central Peru, to the coast of Peru and northern Chile, to Amazonian Brazil, to southern Argentina, and to coastal southern Brazil.

[[File:Flamenco en Laguna Chaxa.JPG|thumb|Andean flamingo foraging in a lake in [[Salar de Atacama]], Chile]]