THE MYSTERY OF THE FLAMINGOS by Leslie Brown
This is the story of an outstanding piece of natural history research work. For six years, Leslie Brown, a government official in Kenya by profession but an ornithologist by choice, has been studying the Greater and Lesser Flamingos of East Africa and trying to unravel the many mysteries surrounding these extraordinary birds.
On the alkaline lakes of Kenya and Tanganyika there are something like three million Lesser Flamingos and 50,000 Greater Flamingos, yet little was known of their feeding, display, breeding, nesting, hatching, moulting and other habits. To find out for himself, Leslie Brown used up all his leave and spare time, learned to fly an aircraft in order to reach the almost inaccessible and inhospitable regiors in which flamingos live, and nearly lost his life when he was literally stuck in the mud in what he calls one of the foulest spots on earth.
After many set-backs and disappointments, his persistent efforts were rewarded and he was able to record fully, both by notes and by films, the fantastic life of the flamingos. Those who read his description and study the outstanding series of photographs may well agree that the author has been privileged to witness, in the mass breeding colonies of the flamingos, one of the most astonishing spectacles in the bird world. Although much still remains to be discovered about the flamingos of East Africa, the groundwork has been laid by Leslie Brown's research and his description of it, in this book, is therefore as valuable as it is exciting.
1959 Hardcover
Condition: Very Good (Some damage to the Dustcover)
FB
This is the story of an outstanding piece of natural history research work. For six years, Leslie Brown, a government official in Kenya by profession but an ornithologist by choice, has been studying the Greater and Lesser Flamingos of East Africa and trying to unravel the many mysteries surrounding these extraordinary birds.
On the alkaline lakes of Kenya and Tanganyika there are something like three million Lesser Flamingos and 50,000 Greater Flamingos, yet little was known of their feeding, display, breeding, nesting, hatching, moulting and other habits. To find out for himself, Leslie Brown used up all his leave and spare time, learned to fly an aircraft in order to reach the almost inaccessible and inhospitable regiors in which flamingos live, and nearly lost his life when he was literally stuck in the mud in what he calls one of the foulest spots on earth.
After many set-backs and disappointments, his persistent efforts were rewarded and he was able to record fully, both by notes and by films, the fantastic life of the flamingos. Those who read his description and study the outstanding series of photographs may well agree that the author has been privileged to witness, in the mass breeding colonies of the flamingos, one of the most astonishing spectacles in the bird world. Although much still remains to be discovered about the flamingos of East Africa, the groundwork has been laid by Leslie Brown's research and his description of it, in this book, is therefore as valuable as it is exciting.
1959 Hardcover
Condition: Very Good (Some damage to the Dustcover)
FB
This is the story of an outstanding piece of natural history research work. For six years, Leslie Brown, a government official in Kenya by profession but an ornithologist by choice, has been studying the Greater and Lesser Flamingos of East Africa and trying to unravel the many mysteries surrounding these extraordinary birds.
On the alkaline lakes of Kenya and Tanganyika there are something like three million Lesser Flamingos and 50,000 Greater Flamingos, yet little was known of their feeding, display, breeding, nesting, hatching, moulting and other habits. To find out for himself, Leslie Brown used up all his leave and spare time, learned to fly an aircraft in order to reach the almost inaccessible and inhospitable regiors in which flamingos live, and nearly lost his life when he was literally stuck in the mud in what he calls one of the foulest spots on earth.
After many set-backs and disappointments, his persistent efforts were rewarded and he was able to record fully, both by notes and by films, the fantastic life of the flamingos. Those who read his description and study the outstanding series of photographs may well agree that the author has been privileged to witness, in the mass breeding colonies of the flamingos, one of the most astonishing spectacles in the bird world. Although much still remains to be discovered about the flamingos of East Africa, the groundwork has been laid by Leslie Brown's research and his description of it, in this book, is therefore as valuable as it is exciting.
1959 Hardcover
Condition: Very Good (Some damage to the Dustcover)
FB