The Lesser Flamingo rarely ranges far from the soda lakes probably because its diet is primarily Spirulina, a blue-green algae which is found in the shallows of the alkaline lakes.
At certain times of the year the birds are present in such vast numbers that, from high above the lakes, it looks as though the shore-line is composed of a broad bright pink band of sand.

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