Description
Lesser flamingoes (Phoenicopterus minor). This is a film scan. The photograph was taken on Lake Bogoria (formerly Lake Hannington) in Kenya , East Africa. Africa's Great Rift Valley, part of which lies within Kenya, attracts millions of flamingoes to its soda lakes. Lesser flamingoes are particularly numerous here, on Lake Bogoria, where several thousand can be seen feeding. There are probably around two million lesser flamingoes. they feed mostly on (Spirulina), an alga which grows only in alkaline lakes. Although blue-green in colour, the algae contain pigments that give the birds their pink colour.