#leucorodia

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Eurasian Spoonbill showing how to use that spoonbill to find food in the water (they sweep their bill through the water to find small crustaceans and fish).

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Skestork (Platalea leucorodia)

Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)

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Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) (regular plumage), family Threskiornithidae

Though spoonbills show preference for shallow wetlands, they can survive regardless of the type of water (fresh, saline, or brackish), and they may thus inhabit a wide range of habitats, like marshes, rivers, floodplains, lakes, and mangroves.

Dierenpark Zie-ZOO, taken August 2024

Previous post (with breeding plumage) can be found here.

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Two spoonbills engage in a mating ritual in the UK. Spoonbills are having a good year nationwide; wardens at RSPB Fairburn Ings in Yorkshire report that nine chicks, or “teaspoons” as they have been nicknamed, have already fledged, a record number - Photograph: Peter Lau/Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/PA

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Löffler, Platalea leucorodia | Die Vogel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

[herpsandbirds]

I just remembered spoonbills

so instead of googling them I’m gonna ask my favorite animal poster if they have any cool facts abt em :)

SPOONBILLS

If you're from the Americas (where I live), you might think there is only one species of spoonbill, the Roseate Spoonbill, but there are actually 6 species, all in the genus Platalea.

Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)

Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor)

African Spoonbill (Platalea alba)

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Platalea flavipes)

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)

Spoonbills are in the same family along with the ibises, Threskiornithidae.

The common name of course comes from the spatulate (spoon shaped) bill, which they sweep, partly open, through the water to catch insects, crustaceans, and small fishes and frogs.

Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary, High Island, TX, USA

photograph by Rose Poole

The Roseate Spoonbill is the most colorful of the spoonbills, and the only one that is pink. This pink and red coloration, a carotenoid pigment called canthaxanthin, comes from small crustaceans that are a large part of their diet (like flamingos).

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Hillsborough, Florida, USA

photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Sydney, Australia

photograph by Michael Daley

Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucocorodia), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Germany

photograph by Andreas Trepte

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The Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea

leucorodia), or common spoonbil, is a

wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.

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European Spoonbill - Colhereiro (Platalea leucorodia)

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (4/07/2024)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/2500s]

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クロツラヘラサギ、Platalea minor

ヘラサギ、Platalea leucorodia

3月9日、名古屋市

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It is not easy for a spoonbill to do proper feather care, just look at the length of the beak.

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BOTD: Eurasian Spoonbill

Image credit: Andreas Trepte

Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)

The Eurasian Spoonbill's beak, from which it derives its name, is swept side to side in the water, its sensitive bill sensing tiny vibrations and locating prey, as well as filtering small fish and shrimps. They are mostly silent with their main sound being bill snapping.

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Löffler | EurasianSpoonbill

Platalea leucorodia

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Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) (breeding plumage), family Threskiornithidae

Both male and female Eurasian spoonbills look the same in their breeding plumage, developing a crest of long feathers on their head, and a patch of yellow on their breast.

Dierenpark Zie-ZOO, taken June 2024

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eurasian spoonbills (platalaea leucorodia)