“It can become extinct within our lifetime,” says Ken Mwathe of BirdLife International, who is also the co-ordinator of the Lake Natron Consultative Group. Ironically, although the Lesser flamingo is the smallest and the most numerous of the five flamingo species, it is now also the most threatened. Every year, two million of the crimson-winged birds come to breed on the shores of these alkine waters.Īfter the eggs hatch, the lake turns into a nursery of chicks and a few months later, the pink beauties take to their wings to neighbouring Kenya, to the other lakes of the Great Rift Valley to feed on an exclusive diet of spirulina algae found in the fresh water lakes of Baringo and Naivasha – until they are ready to breed again. Tanzania’s Lake Natron is world famous for being the home of Lesser Flamingos.
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