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Lesser Flamingos, Rift Valley, Kenya

© Karl Lehmann

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    Mineral-laden waters around these hot springs in the Rift Valley teem with plankton. Vast numbers of flamingos are drawn to the rich food source; occasionally the birds venture too close and perish in the steaming water.

Flamingos, like baleen whales, are filter feeders - a way of life unusual among the vertebrates. Two species gather by the millions in the soda lakes of Africa’s Rift Valley to extract plankton from the alkaline waters; three others inhabit the Americas. The birds in this photograph are Lesser Flamingos, Phoenicopterus minor.

This photograph is available as a 16x24" signed print, archivally mounted and matted or archivally framed in black metal.

Mounted size is 22"x30" (56x76 cm).

 

Archivally mounted and matted

22"x30"

$350

 

Archivally framed

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