Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Roseate Spoonbill


Here is a short description of the roseate spoonbill from Wikipedia: Roseate Spoonbill:
The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) - sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaia - 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.
This particular roseate spoonbill was found in the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. 

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