Flamingos fly to greener pastures as summer sets in

The flamingos are leaving and the summer’s here. Temperatures across the country are expected to soar over the coming weeks to peak during July and August as the six-month-long summer sets in.

UAE’s Met Department has warned that temperatures across the country will rise by four to five degrees during May and further during the coming months.

The flamingoes, especially the breeding ones have already left the country in search of cooler weather or are on their way out.

Regualr bird watchers will know that it is difficult to spot the coloured birds are hardly seen during summer.

“Most of the breeding birds would have already left the country. Generally they go to the north to cooler weather - to turkey or north-west Iran. The only birds you will see in Ras al Khor sanctuary are those  that are not breeding,” says Kevin P C Hyland, from the Wildlife Protection Office in Dubai. “We will start seeing them again in October,” he added.

According to the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology, temperature will continue to move up gradually and can go as high as 44 degrees this May.

The highest recorded temperature during the month of May so far was 52 degrees centigrade in Asab in the UAE in 2001.

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