Lesser flamingos engage in a communal pre-breeding display
at Lake Nakuru in Kenya. Their pink color comes from the
cyanobacteria they eat: a type of photosynthetic plankton
called a blue-green algae that’s actually red.
Lesser flamingos engage in a communal pre-breeding display
at Lake Nakuru in Kenya. Their pink color comes from the
cyanobacteria they eat: a type of photosynthetic plankton
called a blue-green algae that’s actually red.