Roseate Spoonbills
by Richard Goldman
Title
Roseate Spoonbills
Artist
Richard Goldman
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) makes you want to smile. Its bright pink coloration, especially in the adults, and the spoon-like bill adapted to bottom feeding are outstanding features. The young and immature are much less colorful (mostly white, some pink), but no less amusing to watch, as they sweep the bill back and forth in search of morsels (this particular image shows this happening). The Spoonbill is in the ibis family. This bird is found along the Gulf coast, the both coasts of Mexico and in the Caribbean in North America. They dine on fish, crustaceans and shrimp.
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April 14th, 2015
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HH Photography
Congratulations for your feature in our FAA group, Shore Birds of Florida.
Richard Goldman replied:
Thanks for featuring these young spoonbills searching for food at The Celery Fields.
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