Greater flamingos feed on the flooded, shallow, coastal mudflats in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Walvis Bay Lagoon is one of the most important coastal barrier lakes in the southern African region and it is located on the endless coast where the Namib desert opens to the Atlantic Ocean. Every year tens of thousands of migratory birds of more than 150 species, especially greater and lesser flamingos, spend the whole summer in the lagoon and the surrounding salt flats.

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