Definitionn. wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
Last update: October 17, 2015
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Among these are the large white crane and small crane, the blue heron, the snowy-white egret, the roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), stork, bittern and many species of ducks. [Please select]
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The beak is flattened laterally, that is, in a plane at right angles to that of a spoonbill or duck. [Please select]
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THE AMERICAN FLAMINGO, SCARLET IBIS AND ROSEATE SPOONBILL are three of the most beautiful and curious water-haunting birds of the tropics. [Please select]
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COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Page 183 Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja 89 Family IBIDIDÃ. [Please select]
The "plume-hunters" have practically exterminated the plume-bearing egrets, wholly annihilated the roseate spoonbill, the flamingo, and also the Carolina parrakeet. [Please select]
Couch, however, writes me, in a letter dated November, 1873, that a Spoonbill was brought to him to stuff. [Please select]
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There were some most splendid specimens, and the grandest of all, to my thinking, was a Roseate Spoonbill, a wading, fish-catching bird of all shades of rose, from pale pink to crimson. [Please select]
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