50 Top Birding sites in Kenya by Catherine Ngarachu

Author:Catherine Ngarachu [Ngarachu, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781775842491
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2017-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

OTHER WILDLIFE

A great deal of game is managed in this park, including large numbers of buffalo and some of the highest concentrations of black and white rhinos in the country.

SITE 27

LAKE BOGORIA IBA

KEY SPECIES

Black-necked Grebe, Lesser Flamingo, Greater Flamingo, Cape Teal, Lesser Kestrel, Pallid Harrier, Silverbird.

© Peter Usher

A hot spring at Lake Bogoria

© Peter Usher

Lesser Flamingos never breed at Lake Bogoria.

The most saline and alkaline of Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes, Bogoria is perhaps also the most dramatic. The Siracho Escarpment rises abruptly from the lake’s eastern shore, while spectacular hot springs and steam geysers are clustered on the flatter western shoreline and in the south. This 107km2 reserve is a major feeding ground for hundreds of thousands of Lesser Flamingo. They come to feed on the blue-green algae Spirulina, which sometimes gives the lake a greenish colour.

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