A major breeding ground for flamingos in Turkey saw a sharp drop-off in numbers this year because of an ongoing drought. Lake Tuz is the second-largest lake in Turkey and normally hosts around 6,000 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KONYA, Turkey (AP) — For centuries, Lake Tuz ...

"Last year, we had a high number of flamingos. This year, we have even more," says a professor observing birds in the region. Flamingos have started to come to Lake Tuz, a hypersaline lake in central ...

The flamingo population breeding in Turkey constitutes nearly 34 percent of the entire flamingo population in Europe, according to the ministry. Nearly 1,900 flamingo chicks hatched in Turkey's Lake ...

Reflected on the surface of Lake Tuz in Turkey, these flamingos are following a well-trodden path. Every spring, tens of thousands fly to this salt lake to breed. However, as the lake dries up due to ...