Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), Florida’s iconic wading bird.

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), Florida’s iconic wading bird.

Striking, beautiful, bizarre, fascinating – all are adjectives used to describe Florida’s iconic Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja). The pink color of it’s feathers is diet-derived, from carotinoid pigments. Spoonbills wade through the shallows, swishing their spoon shaped bills from side to side…feeding on crustaceans, aquatic insects, frogs, newts and small fish. Hunted almost to extinction […]

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