“You’d literally get, say, a hundred finches washed ashore in a 50-yard stretch. I saw entire flocks of dead birds all washed ashore together, lemming-like,” he says. Lake Natron, in Northern Tanzania, has highly alkaline waters that transform any animals that touch it into morbid calcified statues. During dry season, Brandt discovered, when the water recedes, the birds’ desiccated, chemically-preserved carcasses wash up along the coastline. Approaching the shoreline of Lake Natron in Tanzania, photographer Nick Brandt faced an eerie sight: There, lying on the earth as still and stiff as statues. Approaching the shoreline of Lake Natron in Tanzania, photographer Nick Brandt faced an eerie sight: There, lying on the earth as still and stiff as statues, were calcified corpses of a variety of. When salinity increases, so do cyanobacteria, and the lake can also support more nests. When photographer Nick Brandt reached the edge of Lake Natron, he made an eerie discovery. Brandt theorizes that the highly-reflective, chemical dense waters act like a glass door, fooling birds into thinking they’re flying through empty space (not long ago, a helicopter pilot tragically fell victim to the same illusion, and his crashed aircraft was rapidly corroded by the lake’s waters). Mining trona for soda ash from ponded evaporated brine was recently contemplated at Lake Natron in northern Tanzania (Baker 2011), which is the. The lake is the only regular breeding area in East Africa for the 2.5 million lesser flamingoes, whose status of 'near threatened' results from their dependence on this one location. This red tinge to the water can even be seen from space 6. A swallow © Nick Brandt 2013, Courtesy of Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, NYĪs you might expect, few creatures live in the harsh waters, which can reach 140 degrees Fahreinheit-they’re home to just a single fish species ( Alcolapia latilabris), some algae and a colony of flamingos that feeds on the algae and breeds on the shore.įrequently, though, migrating birds crash into the lake’s surface. The water of Lake Natron sometimes turns red (or orange-red) because of the algae that thrives in its hypersaline environment.
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