family Phoenicopteridae

bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

Ciconiiformes, order Ciconiiformes - order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises

flamingo - large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes