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Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
Above: An adult Roseate Spoonbill foraging in the shallows of Laguna Madre, South Padre Island, Texas (8/4/2007).
Below: Photographed in southern Florida in February 2005.
Below two: A juvenile Roseate Spoonbill along Laguna Madre, South Padre Island, Texas (8/4/2007).
Below: Delaware's first record of Roseate Spoonbill, Sussex Co., Delaware (6/25/2009). This bird has been spending most of its time within just a few hundred yards of the Maryland line!
The evening shift--the Roseate Spoonbill forages at dusk beside two Willet and a Black-crowned Night-Heron. To our surprise, the spoonbill did not go to roost during the large dusk flight, but settled in on a mudflat out on the marsh.
An experimental shot taken in darkness by the light of Catch 54 at 1600 ISO and a low aperture.
