The Lesser flamingo can be recognized by its strong red carmine invoice and light red plumage as opposed to the higher, which has a invoice with a dark tip. The Lesser flamingos are ones that are generally shown in documentaries mainly because they are huge in number. The flamingos supply on plankton, designed from their excrement combining in the heated alkaline ocean, and plankton. Researchers estimate that the flamingo inhabitants at Nakuru, which is often more than a thousand - or even two thousand, takes in about 250,000 kg of plankton per hectare of surface area per year.
Recently, the number of Flamingos has been decreasing perhaps due to too much tourism, pollution resulting from industries waterworks nearby who dump waste into the waters or simply because of changes in water quality which makes the lake temporarily inhospitable. Usually, the lake recedes during the dry season and floods during the wet season. In recent years, there have been wide variations between the dry and wet seasons' water levels. It is suspected that this is caused by increasing watershed land conversion to intensive crop production and urbanization, both which reduce the capacity of soils to absorb water, recharge groundwaters and thus increase seasonal flooding. Pollution and drought destroy the flamingos' food, Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, and causing them to migrate to the nearby Lakes, more recently lakes Elmenteita, Simbi Nyaima and Bogoria.
These pictures were captured by seasoned wildlife photographer Martin Harvey.
Recently, the number of Flamingos has been decreasing perhaps due to too much tourism, pollution resulting from industries waterworks nearby who dump waste into the waters or simply because of changes in water quality which makes the lake temporarily inhospitable. Usually, the lake recedes during the dry season and floods during the wet season. In recent years, there have been wide variations between the dry and wet seasons' water levels. It is suspected that this is caused by increasing watershed land conversion to intensive crop production and urbanization, both which reduce the capacity of soils to absorb water, recharge groundwaters and thus increase seasonal flooding. Pollution and drought destroy the flamingos' food, Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, and causing them to migrate to the nearby Lakes, more recently lakes Elmenteita, Simbi Nyaima and Bogoria.
These pictures were captured by seasoned wildlife photographer Martin Harvey.
lake nakuru flamingos Photo
