#1326 · 🐦 birds

Roseate Spoonbill

🇳🇱 Rode Lepelaar ·Platalea ajaja

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0
2. © Instituto Últimos Refúgios · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Cláudio Dias Timm · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Kevin Bryant · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Mary Keim · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Sam Kieschnick · CC BY 4.0
7. © Stella Tea · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Cheryl Rosenfeld · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 41,616iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
41,616 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).