Figure 1. Distribution area of the Caribbean flamingo (Birdlife-International, 2016; Torres-Cristiani et al., 2020). The colonies sampled in Cuba are labelled as; CP, Cayo Las Picúas; RM, Río Máximo; RC, Río Cauto; the rest of the samples come from Bonaire and Galápagos. The genetic flow between the northern and southern Caribbean colonies remains unknown.