Sentence examples for lesser flamingos from inspiring English sources

Some of the assemblies are enormous; for example, over one million lesser flamingos can occur on a single African lake.

East Africa is home to 75 percent of the world's population of lesser flamingos, and Lake Natron offers the most important breeding ground for these otherwise nomadic birds.

But on Lake Natron, which is a Ramsar site — a measure that recognizes ecologically valuable wetland habitats — the lesser flamingos face another potential threat.

News surfaced in July of plans to build a soda-ash extraction and processing plant on the shores of Lake Natron in Tanzania, which was the breeding site for 75% of the global population of lesser flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor).

She wandered into a glass-enclosed aviary and began watching the zoo's flock of lesser flamingos, Phoenicopterus minor, with their foamy orangesicle plumage and their thick, bent bills the color of a bloodstain.

Disney is also in discussions with the US-based Wildlife Consetvation Society to set up a research programme to examine the link between the lesser flamingos and Natron, the largest soda lake in the Rift Valley.

14 Capcom; Rockstar; Eidos; Konami; Ubisoft? 15 Elia Kazan; Nicholas Ray George Stevenss? 1 (Lesser) flamingo.

The lesser flamingo, which is the smallest and most common species, feeds predominantly on the blue-green algae that proliferates in numerous salty lakes.

Many of the species in the order are very abundant, with world populations running into millions, and some assemblages, such as those of the lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) in Africa, are enormous.

The lake's "protection and preservation are crucial to the survival of the lesser flamingo," he told ScienceNOW in an e-mail.

Surrounded by savannah, valleys and volcanoes, the alkaline lakes of the Great Rift Valley are the setting for a wildlife spectacle in which as many as four million lesser flamingoes move between them, depending on the water's level of algae.