Check out the video Jan took at the bottom of this post.
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| Laguna Colorada. The rare James Flamingos live here off the pink and red algae. You are what you eat! |
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| Fly away ... OK, so this one landed like 50 m away - same laguna, same food. |
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| So many flamingos - and one other bird in the foreground (click to enlarge, as always! |
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| Flamingo in flight with perfect reflection. (Yeah - Inga got this one. Finally a bird in flight up close!) |
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| Vicuña! Wikipedia says they are a relative of the llama, and is believed to be the wild ancestor of domesticated alpacas. They seem to live on nothing in this harsh environment. Maybe they eat dirt?! |
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| One of the 80 or so bird species living at well above 4,000 m in the Andes of Bolivia. |
BIG love for the flamingos and other sweet birds that you saw. I loved watching the video and seeing them walk.. oh, and the vicuna is a grazer that eats grasses... oh, and it's classifed as an endangered species!!! whoa
ReplyDeleteI saw the same type of Lago de sal in the Ataca Desert in Chile at about 4 000M of altitude. Also there were such rosy flamingos. Great pics ! Seems to be pretty windy. Good place to get a tan ! Enjoy !Guy
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