The bird mummies of Natron

The Rift Valley's Lake Natron is the chosen mating ground of the endangered lesser flamingo. The long-legged waterfowl may flourish, but to any other living creature, Lake Natron is hell on earth. 

The lake's steeply alkaline waters are a graveyard for thousands of small birds. Wildlife photographer NickBrandt used the corpses littering the Tanzanian lake shores as posed models for a haunting new series of photographs. 

Natron is usually a toasty 80 degrees Fahrenheit and blood-red frombacteria, the only living things that can survive its deadly alkalinity. Lately, it's earned a reputation for washing up the bodies of small animals on its shores, each wrapped in a delicatecrusty shroud.

Brandt was captivated by startlingly well-preserved bodies of bats, flamingos, eagles and swallows, and created a whole series of photographs to document the eerie phenomenon. 

"I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania," Brandt told NBC News in an email. "I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in 'living' positions, bringing them back to 'life.'" see more..

Source: nbcnews

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