Lake Nakuru is located in Kenya a protected and preserved jewel in Lake Nakuru Nationwide Park. The floor of the lake has an space of 40 km2 (somewhat over 15 sq. miles). It’s comparatively shallow as lakes go, being some 3m (about 10 ft) in depth. Nakuru means “Mud or Dusty Place” within the Maasai language.
It’s a so known as soda or alkaline lake with excessive concentrations of carbonate salts. Do you know that some soda lakes can include such excessive concentrations of salts that virtually no vertebrates besides flamingos can withstad these excessive concentrations and reside there.
Even Charles Darwin wrote: ‘How stunning it’s that flamingoes in appreciable numbers inhabit such lakes. Thus now we have somewhat residing world inside itself, tailored to those inland lakes of brine.’ (from “A Naturalist’s Voyage Around the World” guide)
Excessive concentrations of carbonate salts additionally trigger abundance of algae in such lakes, which serves as the primary meals provide for the flamingos.
That’s why lake Nakuru attracts such huge numbers of gorgeous flamingos that famously line its shores day by day. By the way in which distinctive pink or reddish color of flamingos comes from carotenoids contained in crustacean shells and plant plankton.
As you already understood Nakuru Lake is greatest recognized for 1000’s, typically even tens of millions of those well-known pink birds nesting alongside its shores. The focus of the birds visiting Nakaru at any given time has been estimated at upto 1.5 million flamingos. This massive gathering of Flamingos gives the look that the lake is pink in coloration.