Birds of the World

○ ← PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae (Ibises, Spoonbills) →

Genus: Platalea (6 species)


Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) Range: NA, MA, SA: s USA to n Argentina
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Large unmistakable wader Immature lacks orange neck and dark pink shoulders but is still unmistakable.
Immatures are pale.


African Spoonbill (Platalea alba) Range: AF: widespread s of the Sahara South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Platalea flavipes) Range: AU: Australia (except Tasmania) Joyce's Creek, Victoria, Australia
Photograph by Patrick Kavanagh Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Eurasian Spoonbill

Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Range: AF, PAL, OR: widespread
Germany

Photograph by Andreas Trepte Copyright and usage info


Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor) Endangered Range: PAL: ne Russia, Korean Pen. and ne China Thailand
Photograph by Francesco Veronesi Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) Range: AU: sc New Guinea, Australia, Tasmania, coastal North and South Is. (New Zealand) Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia
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