Roseate
Spoonbills, as their name implies, are beautiful shades of rosy pink.
This spoonbill with fluff still on its head is a juvenile bird.
Juvenile spoonbills have little white feathers covering the tops of
their heads, but the adults are bald like Wood
Storks.
Young
Spoonbill on the rail:
They have bright red eyes:
Some spoonbills have brilliant red patches of feathers. Others only have
a few, and the juveniles are simply soft pink.
Here's a Roseate Spoonbill strolling past a
Double-Crested Cormorant:
While you're here, visit my other birds, or check out some of the other creatures that
inhabit the wetlands like these two
alligators lurking in the
Spatterdock.
There's a trick to taking a picture like this. Or perhaps I should not
even try to take it at all? Regardless, its a fine picture of a
reflection of the Spoonbill, and it illustrates how they are a bit
larger than Mottled Ducks.
