LESSER FLEMINGOS

Many thousands of lesser flamingos have flocked to Tanzania's Lake Natron to begin nesting. Three - quarters of the world population of lesser flamingos live in East Africa and use lake Natron as their nesting site. East Africa's lesser flamingos are normadic and feed in a chain of alkaline soda lakes along the Rift vallery but Lake Natron is the only significant nesting site. Flamingos aren't usual if conditions at Lake Natron are suitable and if the flamingos are in good health.

Island on the huge, shallow soda lake are so inaccessible that researchers observations of breeding lesser flamingos and their numbers can often only be made from aircraf, or from sightings of young flamingos at other lakes after they have fledged.

flocked: es reuneixen
nesting: anidar
chain: cadena
huge: enorme
shallow: poc profunds
researchers: investigadors
breeding: criar
sightings: avistaments
fledged: plomes