This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The world's most seemingly-toxic lakes are under threat. And they are also home to one of our most familiar birds: ...

• Nakuru is one of the most important Flamingo feeding lakes in East Africa, historically supporting over one million birds at a time. • The lake increased in surface area by 90.7 per cent from 2009 ...

Data from the water bird counts revealed a declining trend in the number of flamingos within Lake Nakuru which was once renowned for hosting thousands of flamingos. [iStockphoto] Scientists plan to ...

Consumer production and consumption were studied in the equatorial alkaline-saline Lake Nakuru from 1972 to 1976. Together with earlier reports (including a study of the dominant consumer, the Lesser ...

Flamingos at Lake Nakuru in Nakuru county. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Rising water levels at Lake Nakuru and Bogoria in the Rift Valley has interfered with the habitat of flamingos leading to a ...

Lake Nakuru is a very shallow strongly alkaline lake. It is set in a picturesque landscape of surrounding woodland and grassland next to Nakuru town. The lake catchment is bounded by Menengai crater ...

LAKE NAKURU, Kenya,(Reuters) - Lake Nakuru in Kenya is home to some of the world's most majestic wildlife: lions, rhinos, zebras and hundreds of bird species - including flamingos that famously blush ...

It is one of the world’s most spectacular sights – huge flocks or “flamboyances” of flamingos around East Africa’s lakes – as seen in the film Out of Africa or David Attenborough’s A Perfect Planet.

LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK, KENYA — The famous flamingos of Nakuru are fading away. The spindly, exquisite birds, clouds of pink rising on a million wings in generations of tourist photographs, are ...

A mysterious spate of flamingo deaths in Kenya is worrying wildlife experts. Hundreds of lesser flamingos living in Lake Nakuru and Lake Bogira in western Kenya have died in the past week and many ...