#0562 · 🐦 birds

Eurasian Spoonbill

🇳🇱 Lepelaar ·Platalea leucorodia

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Niranj Vaidyanathan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Tobias Polzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Papageorgiou Nikolaos · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Frans Vandewalle · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Kedar · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Agustín Povedano · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. © Paolo Zucca · CC BY 4.0
9. © f-owl · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Kim, Hyun-tae · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The Eurasian spoonbill or common spoonbill ( Platalea leucorodia ) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The genus name Platalea is from Latin and means "broad", referring to the distinctive shape of the bill, and leucorodia is from Ancient Greek leukerodios "spoonbill", itself derived from leukos , "white" and erodios "heron".

base stats

NL sightings 2,233iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 24,943iNaturalist observations
weight 76 gadult, up to
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

Spotted 2,233 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #30 most seen of the birds in NL.
24,943 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 76 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).