Pink Flamingos: Long-Missed Return To Kenya's Lake Nakuru.

Eight years agone, rising water levels in Kenya's Lake urban centre drove away from the clouds of pink-coloured flamingos that were the park's biggest draw.

Now they are back.

The come has rekindled hopes of a gradual rebound in a vicinity heavily dependent on tourists for employment and revenues. On a recent visit, flocks of flamingos foraged for food within the lake's turquoise waters.

Whereas others flapped in a very sine-wave formation on top of. A rhino touched near. "With the rise currently of the number of flamingos we've got started seeing guests conjointly increasing," King of England Mwebia, the park's business law officer, told Reuters.

She declined to administer traveller numbers and therefore the African nation life Service didn't come calls seeking comment. however, nearly 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 guests came in 2011, the last year figures area unit publically accessible for.

Flamingos eat insect larvae and alga that offers them their pink hue. High water levels shrink the birds' ideal breeding and feeding grounds. When the urban centre lake initial rose, Mwebia aforementioned, flamingos left for near lakes like Bogoria and Baringo whose waters were shallower.

But significant rains in recent years have conjointly flooded those lakes, forcing the birds to come to an urban centre, wherever they're such AN intrinsic attraction that the road leading up to the park is embellished with flamingo-shaped lampposts. The global pandemic has battered Kenya's business trade, however urban centre a minimum of sees a bright spot on the horizon.