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The return of Flamingos to Lake Nakuru

Flamingos at Lake Nakuru National Park on August 10,2020. (Photo: Kipsang Joseph)

Months after Lake Nakuru National Park was ranked among world’s most colourful lakes in the world by Conde Nast Traveller, a travel website, sightings of hundreds of flamingos are back to grace the lake after almost four years.

Although internationally recognized as a home of flamingos within the great rift, the increasing water levels had seen the disappearance of the birds within the lake. This year, numerous sightings of the birds that symbolises Nakuru are back in droves.

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