This could have been avoided if you would have just moved into a 15 minute city, you know
Study warns climate change could force flamingos from their natural homes
Rising water levels threaten to flush colorful flamingos from their homes, a new study has suggested.
Huge flocks or “flamboyances” of flamingos around East Africa’s lakes have been called one of the world’s most spectacular sights, being displayed in the film “Out of Africa and David Attenborough’s A Perfect Planet.”
Now, research from King’s College London suggests that this spectacular sight could be a thing of the past, as the lesser flamingo is in danger of being flushed out of its historic feeding grounds.
For the first time satellite data has been used to study all the key flamingo-feeding lakes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania over two decades—which identified how rising water levels are reducing the birds’ main food source.
The region was once home to more than three-quarters of the global population of lesser flamingos, but their numbers are declining.
The scientists do understand that the flamingos have been moving with the lakes, and the water levels of the lakes will have gone up and down throughout the Holocene, right? And that the whole area of those three nations are part of a massive fault line, including one which is splitting off from Western Africa, right? And those fault lines have created so many of the lakes, right? Oh, sorry, it’s because people drive fossil fueled vehicles.
The study, published in the journal Current Biology, discovered that rising water levels in soda lakes are diluting their normally salty and alkaline nature, leading to a decline in flamingo’s main food source of phytoplankton.
This change was notably seen at the important tourist lake Nakuru, which has historically supported over one million birds at a time.
The lake increased in surface area by 91 percent from 2009 to 2022 whilst its mean chlorophyll-a concentrations halved.
A goodly chunk of African flamingos live in the area associated with the Great Rift Valley, which grows bigger each year. Not much, plate tectonics are slow. Many of the main lakes are only about 10,000 years old, created as the sea levels rose as the last glacial age was really ending, along with rift. Funny how none of the articles mention any of this.
Oh, and the article itself really doesn’t mention climatic changes, man-caused or natural. It’s like they had to run the cult headline. The flamingos will just move, like life on Earth has always done.
The article in Current Biology, Productivity declines threaten East African soda lakes and the iconic Lesser Flamingo, Byrne et al 2024, did mention global warming as the likely cause.
And from the abstract: Our results highlight the increasing vulnerability of Lesser Flamingos and other soda lake biodiversity in East Africa, particularly with increased rainfall predicted under climate change.
Yes, we humans are changing regional climates, the distribution of cyanobacteria, plants and animals, lake levels, rain patterns etc, but William Teach is correct that the Earth will have to adapt to us.
More useless twaddle from Rimjob.
Now go back to sleep, fatso.
More twaddle from the Obsessive Cowardly Lyin’, aka The Twat, aka The Lapdog.
The Cowardly Lyin’s “handler”, William Teach, claimed climate change wasn’t mentioned. It was.
You’re annoying the adults with your childish twaddle, fat boy.
Just another cut&paste from The Cowardly Lyin’
Yawn. ROFL!
Chicken Little Man
Wow! Multiple qualifiers…
….threaten to flush….a new study has suggested.
….suggests that …
…… is likely to….are likely increasingly…
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!
Little Loser Man,
As you should know by now, the language of experimental science is rarely absolute. Note too that the findings in this study were narrow. They found that 1) the lake volumes were increasing from fresh water being added which 2) diluted the salinity and alkalinity of the lakes and 3) reducing the chlorophyll-a 4) reducing the food supply for the least flamingos, likely causing the birds to look elsewhere. They reasonably attributed the dilution of the lakes to the observed increased rainfall. The likes are salty and alkaline with limited inputs and outputs, so rainwater (fresh water) would increase the volume and dilute the solutes. They attributed the increased rainfall to climate change. Do you and Herr Professor Teach have a better hypothesis?
The sky is falling! is the kind of crap found in tabloids and conservablogs. Now fuck off unless you can be reasonable and polite.
Well then, an animal rights attorney must now file a lawsuit on behalf of flamingos, duh.
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In automotive news today, Honda’s luxury brand, Acura, plans to launch a plush new minivan based on the popular Odyssey. Spokesman and inspired executive director for the vehicle’s design team, simply referred to as, Virgil, is confident about the marketing prospects. Virgil went on to suggest that the “Odyssey was an amazing platform to begin with. It could comfortably carry a whole crew of people from Troy to Ithaca in New York, for example. But we thought we could go much further. Our rebadged vehicle, the Aeneid, will be popular from Troy to—well, remote places like Rome, GA.” However, when pressed for details about why all occupants in the original Odyssey seemingly never arrive at their final destination and if the Aeneid would be an improvement in that regard, Virgil said, “Look, you have to understand something about road-trips. They can be…well…they can be epic.”
CarolAnn,
Very clever!!
Chicken Little Man
, the language of experimental science is rarely absolute.
The sky is falling! is the kind of crap found in tabloids and conservablogs. Now fuck off unless you can be reasonable and polite.
If you can’t stand the heat then don’t try and defend all of these bullshit comments that are always backed up by qualifiers.
In the meantime….. The arctic ice thickens, FL is not underwater and your lying heroes haven’t scored a prediction hit….
“Particularly with increased rainfall predicted…”. Oh, so something that hasn’t happened.
How did the lake volume increase other than rainfall? You make less sense than the Little Loser Man.
Fuck off the both of you; you’re humiliating yourselves. LOL
Chicken Little Man
Wow! Multiple qualifiers…
….threaten to flush….a new study has suggested.
….suggests that …
…… is likely to….are likely increasingly…
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!
Chicken Little Man
Wow! Multiple qualifiers…
….threaten to flush….a new study has suggested.
….suggests that …
…… is likely to….are likely increasingly…
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!!