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On High Water in Nakuru

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Above: Grey crowned cranes in Lake Nakuru National Park. Copyright Rupi Mangat

Published: The East African Nation media 19 to 25 October 2019

The salt ribbon around the lake has disappeared, swallowed by the rising water. It’s a phenomenon that researchers studying the lake since the first recorded data, attribute to a 50 year cycle that happened in 1901 and 1963. Continue reading “On High Water in Nakuru” →

Bogoria’s Flaming Flamingos

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Bogoria’s pnk wings – copyright Maya Mangat

It’s a magical wonderland.

Crimson ribbons fly across a lustrous lake for its entire length. It’s the pink flamingos – more precisely the Lesser flamingos – of Bogoria, the caustic cauldron just north of the Equator in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. In between the shorter more glamorous birds we see few of the less glamorous Greater flamingos. Continue reading “Bogoria’s Flaming Flamingos” →