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Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | 2020 - 2

Roseate Spoonbill

 

The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) - sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaja - is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the Gulf Coast of the United States, and from central Florida's Atlantic coast at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, adjoined with NASA Kennedy Space Center at least as far north as South Carolina's Huntington Beach State Park.

 

For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseate_spoonbill

 

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Roseate_Spoonbill/overview

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Uploaded on December 19, 2020
Taken on November 7, 2020