Roseate Spoonbill
The Roseate Spoonbill, for the most part, makes it's home in the Caribbean and South America. Luckily it also calls the coast of the southeastern states home. Their very bright colors, and that oddly shaped bill, quickly identify this species as something special. And specialized they are in that they feed by swinging that great bill side to side while wading, straining out small animals that most other wading birds ignore.
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Bald or not, I must say the Roseate Spoonbill is one of the most striking birds I have ever seen.
Roseate SpoonbillChristmasSt. Johns RiverTosohatchee Wildlife Management AreaPlatalea ajajaFloridaSpoonbillSpatule RoseeEspatula RosadaMarch
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