Flamingos go hungry in Kenya

I’ve declared my fascination with flamingos before on this blog, so I was very sad to learn that the flamingos at Lake Bogoria in Kenya are going hungry, according to Earthwatch.

It offered me no consolation that this time people were not to blame. Scientists believe that heavy rain and swollen streams have diluted the level of blue-green alga in Lake Bogoria. Only 10% of the flamingos’ minimum daily food requirements is now left in the lake.

The flamingos are now seeking the alga in puddles in fields and roads, which leaves them open to predators as well as diseases.

Dr. David Harper, Senior Lecturer in Ecology at the University of Leicester, said: “We now fear that food stress might lead to large scale flamingo mortality either directly through starvation, or indirectly by increasing susceptibility to infectious diseases.” (source: Earthwatch)

Someone please tell me if there is anything, we can do to help these elegant, pink birds?

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