An adult sweeping its bill in shallow water. As soon as the prey is detected the spoonbill snaps the bill closed. Spoonbills are carnivores
An adult sweeping its bill in shallow water. As soon as the prey is detected the spoonbill snaps the bill closed. Spoonbills are carnivores
With southern screamer
A varied group of waterbirds are with the roseate spoonbill. Common gallinule and cocoi heron on the left. Top right a coscoroba swan with a cygnet and a rosy-billed pochard on the mound. Several white-winged and red-frontred coots scattered in the photo
And here the limpkin also appears.
Behind black-crowned night-heron
With snowy egret, female and male rosy-billed pochards and four white-faced whistling-ducks
With southern screamers and white-faced whistling-ducks
With southern screamer and wattled jacana
Feeding
Feeding
A juvenile eating and preening
Feeding
Feeding at the Coypu Pond. Carlos Agulian told us he had seen five roseate spoonbills from the outer sidewalk. We could see only this one. The rest were behind the island. Some time later we saw the five individuals flying.
A juvenile Roseate Spoonbill sweeping the water with the bill at the Coypu Pond.
Feeding
Flight/Moving
Preening
Four spoonbills are preening along with other birds: coots, a snowy egret and a Pekin duck. All of them in the same area
Preening
Preening on an island at the Coypu Pond