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Lesser Flamingos

            Ndutu Lake in the southeastern Serengeti, Tanzania. Taken in January 2023
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The Lesser Flamingo is the smallest of all flamingo species and lives in Africa south of the Sahara and in northwestern India. 
It can be found  in alkaline lakes, salt pans and estuaries where it filters blue-green algae from water. Besides foraging in shallow water it also feeds while swimming in deep water

Phoeniconaias minor
kleine flamingo
Flamant nain
Zwergflamingo
Flamenco Enano
Fenicottero minore
Flamingo-pequeno


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Taken on: July 11, 2023

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