Activity 3Read the following text with correct pronunciation.
Do it aloud, in turns.
Let me tell you about lesser flamingos. This flamingo is an iconic bird of the African Rift Valley.
Hundreds of thousands flocks strong turn whole landscapes pink at the steaming fringes of inhospitable
alkaline lakes. In East Africa there are 3-4 million lesser flamingos; smaller populations live in southern
Africa, including the Etosha Pan, and in India.
You know, these birds have angled bills and extremely long legs. The brilliant pink colors of the adult
plumage are derived from the diet of algae. They grow up to 2 kg weigth and 80-90 cm tall. Short daily
flights take flamingos to fresh water for drinking, but longer nocturnal journeys between strings of alkal
lakes may lead them to fly hundreds of miles.
For your information, these monogamous birds breed in huge colonies on remote, caustic alkaline
mudflats, exposed to searing heat, which are almost impossible for mammalian predators to reach. The
nests are small cones of mud and soda crystals, holding a single egg that hatches after 28 days. When t
weeks old, chicks form herds of hundreds of thousands, attended by just one or two adults, leaving the
parents free to find food. Chicks form lines up to 20 miles (30 km) long, and the nurseries are driven u
30 miles (50 km) across burning mud to reach shallow freshwater lagoons.
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