Those Wonderful Spoonies!
One of my favorite all-time birds is the Roseatte Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja). Found along the Gulf Coast, it is always a pleasure to find these birds when I travel to Florida. The roseatte spoonbill is a large, long-necked wading bird with it’s most prominent feature being it’s “spoon bill”. The bill is flat and spoon-shaped, […]
Longing For Warmer Temps, and …
… Roseatte Spoonbills (Ajaia ajaja)! As with most of the country right now, we’re experiencing very cold temperatures in Missouri. So cold that, while daydreaming earlier today, I envisioned watching the beautiful Roseatte Spoonbills as they arrived in front of me at Ding Darling NWR (Florida) a few years ago. These beauties are one of […]