1) Pink
2 colors associated with flamingos
Flamingos are the most iconic birds on earth. Scientists reckon that the numbers of these marvellous water birds at Nakuru is often more than two and a half million. When they congregate around the lake, it is spectacularly pink in color due to their pink bodies. Also, when heading for their breeding area, the flamingos fly in gorgeous V formations. It is an exceptional sight to watch millions of these birds taking off together in a surge from the surface of Lake Nakuru that looks like a pink flying blanket. Tourists to Lake Nakuru and ornithologists alike describe it as the greatest spectacle in the world. It is not a scene replicated anywhere in the world. Hence, making a trip to Nakuru National Park is a must.
2) Aqua
Lake Nakuru is the most important foraging location for the flamingos. The abundance of the blue-green alga called cyanobacteria in the lake attracts the flamingos that line the shore. Impressively, they consume about hundreds of thousands of such algae per hectare every year. The algae come from their droppings that get mixed with the plankton in the warm alkaline waters. The flamingos eat them by dipping their large beak into the water and eject nutrients through their nasal filters, and in the process, retain the cyano-bacterium, algae and spirulina that they feed. Thereby, the nutrients that they leave give the lake its aqua color.
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