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Video: What is surprising about the place where you can see about 2 million flamingos: Lake Bogoria
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This place is truly considered a pink fairy tale. It is located at an altitude of 1000-1600 meters above sea level, in the Rift Valley of Kenya, and if you look at it from afar, it looks like a pink cloud. This is because hundreds of thousands of flamingos live here. Seething alkaline geysers - hot waters of volcanic springs add magic. If pink flamingos are considered models in the world of birds, then Lake Bogoria is a real bird catwalk.
Hundreds of thousands of pink birds
Bogoria National Reserve covers 107 square kilometers, and almost a quarter of this area is covered with water.
Flamingos are the main attraction of the lake. Huge flocks flock to this quiet place to feast on seaweed. The lake has no outlet, it is salty and therefore abounds in blue and green aquatic plants, which have “painted” its surface with a variety of outflows. But flamingos make the lake pink.
During the fall rainy season, flamingos love the waters of nearby Kenyan Lake Nakuru, but in drier months they move to Bogoria. Here you can see the pink fairy tale all year round. On the lake, birds nest and hatch chicks. The number of flamingos in Bogoria sometimes reaches one and a half to two million!
From the fact that the birds are constantly in motion, from a distance it seems that the lake is covered with a large pink cloud. And if you get close to the water, fearful flamingos will immediately take off, and this spectacle will be no less spectacular.
Since 2011, Lake Bogoria has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is under special protection according to the Ramsar Convention for the Protection of the Wetlands of our Planet.
What else is notable for Bogoria
The hot springs located in the reserve indicate that the molten rock lies quite shallow. Geysers are the result of volcanic activity in the Great Rift Valley. In total, there are about 200 such springs in the lake. At the exit from the ground, the water has a temperature of more than 90 degrees. The springs are hot enough to boil an egg.
Amazing animals can be found in Bogoria. For example, a large kudu (king of antelopes) walking in the forest or resting in the shade of acacias. Gazelles, impalas, zebras graze on the plains. There are also warthogs and flocks of camel monkeys and olive baboons.
Predators such as leopards, spotted hyenas and mongooses also live here. A tourist can walk or ride a bicycle unaccompanied in the reserve to the very springs, but if a guest of these places wants to go outside this territory, you need to get permission from the caretaker, who can provide the tourist with an armed ranger for protection.
By the way, in addition to pink flamingos, other beautiful birds also live in the reserve. The gray-crowned crane (perhaps the most graceful and elegant of the birds) is interesting during the breeding season. Birds gather in large flocks (including adult couples and young single cranes), and those who have not yet acquired a passion perform mating dances.
On the shores of the lake, common ostriches are found in abundance, and around the marshes are black-headed herons, sacred ibises and hadada. By the way, the Kesubo swamp, located to the north of the lake, can be called a real paradise for bird watchers - it holds the Kenyan record for the largest number of bird species (96) observed in one hour.
But there are few waterfowl, in addition to flamingos, on the lake, because it is too salty for them.
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