Spoonbill
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Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds. The spoonbills have a global distribution, being found on every continent except Antarctica. The genus name Platalea derives from
Roseate Spoonbill Myakka River State Park
042 Roseate spoonbill in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent
Platalea flavipes Mount Annan Botanical Gardens
Platalea alba Lake Nakuru
Roseate spoonbill
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The roseate spoonbill is a social wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in both South and North America. The roseate spoonbill's pink color is diet-
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…several cosmopolitan ibis genera, separate from another clade of New World ibises. A 2010 study of mitochondrial DNA of the spoonbills found that the roseate and yellow-billed spoonbills were each other's closest relative, and the two were descended from an early offshoot from the ancestors of the other four…
Young adult, Ecuador
On High Island, Texas, United States
At GaiaZoo, Netherlands