{"id":44009,"date":"2013-08-06T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:16:14","slug":"lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/nt-near-threatened\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This species is classified as Near Threatened because populations appear to be undergoing a moderately rapid decline. Proposed large-scale soda ash extraction at Lake Natron, the most important breeding colony, although currently on hold, would be disastrous for this species and, were this to happen, the species may qualify for uplisting to a higher threat category<\/p>\n<p>Birdlife Factsheet: Lesser Flamingo\u00a0<i>Phoeniconaias\u00a0minor<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-415-44009\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-5139\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/d37k9773_fow.jpg\" title=\"Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor \" alt=\"Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_d37k9773_fow.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3648\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/lesserflamingo2.jpg\" title=\"First record of Lesser Flamingo in Kuwait in December 2007\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"First record of Lesser Flamingo in Kuwait in December 2007\" alt=\"Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_lesserflamingo2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3647\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/lesserflamingo1.jpg\" title=\"First record of Lesser Flamingo in Kuwait in December 2007\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"First record of Lesser Flamingo in Kuwait in December 2007\" alt=\"Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/lesser-flamingo-phoeniconaias-minor-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_lesserflamingo1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This species is classified as Near Threatened because populations appear to be undergoing a moderately rapid decline. Proposed large-scale soda ash extraction at Lake Natron, the most important breeding colony, although currently on hold, would be disastrous for this species and, were this to happen, the species may qualify for uplisting to a higher threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":837700,"parent":42877,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44009","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44009\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}