Flamingoes in Kenya's Great Rift Valley lakes are dwindling despite their millions.
Ecologists claim pink-feathered birds in Kenya and Tanzania are declining.
As lake levels rise, hundreds of dead flamingoes have been spotted under prickly shrubs.
Wading birds get pricked or caught in the thorny trees that now seem like shrubs when they land.
According to Kenya's Standard Newspaper, the birds have left environments where they were formerly abundant.
Flamingo flocks in all Rift Valley lakes have declined, according to ecologists and bird watchers.
Kenya has 64 lakes, eight of which are in the Rift Valley, a north-south intra-continental ridge system.