It is late spring at Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park and more than 2,000 lesser flamingos have
arrived to join a colony numbering in the 100,000s
I t is late spring at Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park and more than 2,000 lesser flamingos have arrived to join a colony numbering in the 100,000s For each bird the time has come to select a mate and with tens of thousands of individuals from which to choose the choice is neither quick nor easy Small groups form as the birds begin their mating dance by scurrying through the shallow water at the lake’s edge
