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More Flamingos Are Flocking to Mumbai Than Ever Before. The Reason Could be Sewage

There is an almost three-fold increase in the flamingo population in Mumbai, India. Rahul Khot, assistant director at the Bombay Natural History Society, tells NPR his speculations as to why.
Flamingos flock to Mumbai between September and April, but this year there are almost three times more birds than the amount that usually flocks to the area.

Around this time every year, tens of thousands of flamingos flock to Mumbai to feed. But this year, there are almost three times more

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