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 ...

Huge pink flocks of millions of flamingos – flamboyances of flamingos – are one of nature’s great spectacles. But colleagues and I have uncovered worrying trends in the salty and highly-alkaline “soda ...

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 ...

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 dying, flying off, fleeing a seemingly ...

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 so-called lesser flamingos living in Lake Nakuru and Lake Bogoria in western Kenya have died in the past week, ...