Lesser flamingos are the smallest and most common of the flamingos.

Afternoon visit to Lake Bogoria which in recent years has been the home of the lesser flamingo.

From 1994, lesser flamingos have been wintering here.

This development will leave lesser flamingoes in East Africa facing extinction".

It could also jeopardise the Lesser Flamingo birds there, which are already endangered.

Lesser Flamingoes from other parts of India come to these mangroves to breed.

The lesser flamingo also feeds on shrimp.

Lake Natron is where two thirds of Lesser Flamingos reproduce.

Aerial shots show the million-strong colony of lesser flamingos on Lake Bogoria.

We captured a flock full of lesser flamingos and spent a good few hours in the area relaxing a bit and enjoying the serene surroundings.

The next and the final day in LRK started with a trip to see the lesser flamingos beyond Zinzuada.

The Lesser flamingos are ones that are commonly pictured in documentaries mainly because they are large in number.

The smallest and most abundant species is the lesser flamingo, which numbers in the millions in Africa's Rift Valley.

S. phoeniconaii - lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias mirror)

The aviary features lesser flamingos, Guinea fowl, storks, hammerkops, and other African birds.

Reduced salinity and pollution with agri-chemicals could wipe out the blue-green algae that provide food for the Lesser Flamingo.

The Lesser Flamingo may be the most numerous species of flamingo, with a population that (at its peak) probably numbers up to two million individual birds.

ARKive - Images and movies of the lesser flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor)

The Lesser Flamingo is the smallest species of flamingo, though it is a tall and largish bird by most standards.

Lesser Flamingo - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Phoenicopterus minor (Lesser Flamingo)

The inner morphology of the beak is similar to that of the Lesser flamingo, where the upper and lower jaws contain lamellae which filter the food.

The exhibit includes three species of flamingo, including Chilean flamingos and lesser flamingos, both of which have been successfully bred in captivity here.

The dam has become an important breeding site for Lesser Flamingos since an artificial S-shaped breeding island was constructed in September 2006.

A particularly interesting case of anatoxin-a poisoning is that of the Lesser Flamingos at Lake Bogoria in Kenya.