“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. During dry season, Brandt discovered, when the water recedes, the birds’ desiccated, chemically-preserved carcasses wash up along the coastline. Sodium carbonate was already used in mummification processes in Egypt, which gave the animals killed in the lake the reputation of mummies. Lake Natron, the East African Halophytic situated along the Great Rift Valley in. He discovered several stone birds and other unlucky animals in the. This was caused by a volcano that is to the south of the lake, causing the ash runoff to run into its waters. Lake Natron- Infamous for Phantasmagorical Photographs of Dead Animals.
The lake can reach a temperature of up to 50 degrees Celsius and its alkalinity levels vary. 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). In 2013, wildlife photographer Nick Brandt was one of the first to document this phenomenon. Lake Natron in northern Tanzania turns animals into statues. 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.
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