The African spoonbill (Platalea alba) is a long-legged wading bird[2] of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The species is widespread across Africa and Madagascar, including Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.[2]
^BirdLife International (2016). "Platalea alba". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22697564A93620935. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697564A93620935.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ ab"African Spoonbill." Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Honoluluzoo.org. Accessed June 2011.
The Africanspoonbill (Platalea alba) is a long-legged wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The species is widespread across...
Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds. The spoonbills have a global distribution, being found on every continent except...
The Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), or common spoonbill, is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The genus name...
The royal spoonbill (Platalea regia) also known as the black-billed spoonbill, occurs in intertidal flats and shallows of fresh and saltwater wetlands...
often with other large wading birds such as storks, herons, Africanspoonbills, African darters, cormorants. It may also form single-species groups on...
territorial while nesting and feeding. Most nest in trees, often with spoonbills or herons. All extant species are capable of flight, but two extinct genera...
murre as well as the second US hatchings of the African grey-headed kingfisher and the Africanspoonbill. Two southern white rhino calves were born at the...
falcinellus) is a water bird in the order Pelecaniformes and the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The scientific name derives from Ancient Greek...
2013-06-15. Retrieved 2012-07-26. Hancock & Kushan, Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World. Princeton University Press (1992), ISBN 978-0-12-322730-0...
that feed on the roots of the grass. Like other ibis species, including spoonbills, and like some other probing feeders such as sanderling and kiwi, hadeda...
participate in mixed flocks, gaining additional safety through numbers: storks, spoonbills, egrets, herons and ducks are all common companions during feedings and...
that other closely related species such as the straw-necked ibis and the spoonbills have not replicated. Questions surrounding the origins of recent highly...
such as the great white pelican, African darter, hamerkop, storks, Africanspoonbill, ibis, ducks, kingfishers and African fish eagle, are known from Lake...
flamingoes, etc.) falling prey to bateleurs although at least one Africanspoonbill (Platalea alba) was recorded as bateleur prey. The largest typical...
Kushlan, James A. (2010) [1992]. "American White Ibis". Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World. London: A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4081-3500-6. Ramo, Cristina;...
long-legged wading birds with long down-curved bills. Along with the spoonbills they form one subfamily within the family Threskiornithidae. The northern...
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