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Article: Flamingo chicks hatch; The second batch of hatchlings has arrived on Kimberley's Kamfers Dam, South Africa's only breeding colony of the birds - but their future is far from certain.(News)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- November 30, 2008
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BYLINE: Eleanor Momberg
As developers prepare to construct a multimillion rand commercial and residential township on the shores of the Kamfers Dam in Kimberley, the threatened lesser flamingo colony is nurturing its new arrivals - more than 100 chicks.
This is the second consecutive year that the Kamfers Dam flamingos, the only breeding colony of lesser flamingo in South Africa, are expanding their numbers, much to the delight of bird conservationists who believe this will become an annual event that could save the flamingo population in Southern Africa.
Mark Anderson, the executive director of Birdlife South Africa, said the first chick was ...