THE sight of millions of flamboyant pink Lesser Flamingos congregating on the lakes of East Africa is one of the most impressive in nature. But every few years, a mysterious killer wipes out thousands of the birds, and leaves their corpses littering the shorelines.
Pollution and infectious diseases have been fingered as potential culprits. But researchers say they have a new suspect. While it is too early to close the case just yet, they say there is strong evidence that the birds are being poisoned by a naturally occurring toxic cyanobacterium.
Two years ago, up to 50,000 birds died inexplicably…
