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	Critter Corner \| Roseate Spoonbill
		Roseate spoonbills hunt by touch instead of sight, a crucial adaptation for a bird that feeds in muddy or vegetation-clogged waters.
		Roseate spoonbills are social birds, spending much of their time with other spoonbills and water birds, and nesting in colonies alongside ibises, storks, cormorants, herons, and egrets.
		Roseate spoonbills were driven to the brink of extinction by hunters supplying the millinery trade in the late 19th century.
	www.refugenet.org /critter/spoonbill.html (810 words)

	NatureWorks - Roseate Spoonbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The roseate spoonbill is about two and a half feet in length with a wingspan of about four and a half feet.
		Young roseate spoonbills have white feathers with a slight pink tinge on the wings.
		Roseate spoonbills fly in flocks in long diagonal lines with their legs and neck stretched out.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/roseatespoonbill.htm (435 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill
		To procure their food, the Spoonbills first generally alight near the water, into which they then wade up to the tibia, and immerse their bills in the water or soft mud, sometimes with the head and even the whole neck beneath the surface.
		Back and wings of a beautiful delicate rose colour; the lower parts of a deeper tint; the tuft of recurved feathers on the fore-neck, a broad band across the wing along the cubitus, and the upper and lower tail-coverts, of a rich and pure carmine with silky lustre.
		But the Spoonbills are also allied in various degrees to Herons and Pelicaninae; so that they clearly present one of those remarkable centres of radiation, demonstrative of the absurdity of quinary and circular arrangements, founded merely on a comparison of skins.
	www.audubon.org /bird/boa/F37_G3a.html (3117 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja, sometimes separated in the monotypic genus Ajaja) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.
		It is a mainly resident breeder in South America, the Caribbean, and the Gulf coast of the USA.
		Roseate Spoonbill nests in mangrove trees, laying 2-5 eggs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roseate_Spoonbill (362 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja)
		The Roseate spoonbill is named after the shape of the bill, which is 6 to 7 inches long and flattened like a spatula.
		The Roseate spoonbill is most commonly found along the Gulf of Mexico and Central and South America.
		The Roseate spoonbill lays 1 to 4 dull white, speckled eggs.
	www.thebigzoo.com /Animals/Roseate_Spoonbill.asp (363 words)

	Salt Grass Flats - Roseate Spoonbill
		Roseate Spoonbills are found mostly in Florida and coastal Texas.
		Roseates swing their spatulate bills from side to side as they wade in shallow water, feeling for small fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, slugs, and acquatic insects.
		Roseates are typically seen in small groups, often with other wading birds.
	www.saltgrassflats.com /birds/roseate_spoonbill.html (350 words)

	Audubon: Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mature spoonbills (long drooping legs, an eye-catching pink blur) burst repeatedly from the veil of leaves ahead and flapped toward the key's interior.
		A century ago the roseate spoonbill had almost disappeared from the United States, as hunters killed many kinds of wading birds to procure their feathers for the millinery trade.
		But the documented problems of an indicator species such as the roseate spoonbill, Lorenz points out, prove that the future of wildlife in one of the most incredibly diverse wetlands on the planet is at stake.
	magazine.audubon.org /birds/birds0107.html (2104 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Roseate Spoonbills, which are also called "flame bird" or "pink curlews," are almost incredible birds.
		Their pink and white general color, highlighted by areas of vivid blood red on the breast, wings, and lower belly, their long legs, and their spoon-shaped bill, which is over six inches long, make a flock of these birds the most spectacular sight in our marshes.
		As recently as the 1940s, the Roseate Spoonbill was considered rare in Louisiana, and any day an ornithologist saw one here registered in memory as a special day indeed.
	losbird.org /labirds/rosp.htm (411 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Description: The Roseate Spoonbill, a large wading bird with pink plumage and a distinctive spatulate bill, is one of the most striking birds found in North America.
		Conservation: The lovely pink primaries of the Roseate Spoonbill were highly prized for use in the construction of ladies' fans at the turn of the century.
		This made Spoonbills one of the favorite targets of the professional plume hunters that decimated so many species of wading birds.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/Birds/Facts/FactSheets/fact-rosespoonbill.cfm (615 words)

	Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens: Roseate Spoonbill
		Roseate spoonbills are highly social birds that interact with other water waders such as herons, storks, and sacred ibises.
		The Roseate Spoonbill is large enough that if it completely outstretched its neck, and heightened the bill upward, it could touch the nose of an average sized man.
		Spoonbills diverged from the ibises, however fossils are few.
	www.jaxzoo.org /things/biofacts/RoseateSpoonbill.asp (437 words)

	Spoonbills
		Previous monitoring of Roseate Spoonbills (Ajaia ajaia) by the Audubon of Florida in Florida Bay over the past 50 years have shown that this species responds markedly to changes in hydrology and corresponding changes in prey abundance and availability (e.g., Powell et al.
		Consequently, the re-establishment of spoonbill colonies in northeast Florida Bay is one change predicted under a conceptual model of the mangrove estuarine transition zone of Florida Bay (Ogden and Davis 1999).
		Thus, we will be able to use annual variation in spoonbill response in a quasi-experimental context to test hypotheses, while simultaneously using the cumulative changes over longer time scales to evaluate the success of restoration efforts.
	cars.er.usgs.gov /sofla/Spoonbills/spoonbills.html (1631 words)

	Birds of Ambergris Caye-Roseate Spoonbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I had heard rumors from the rangers that the spoonbills were nesting there, and it's early spring in Central America.
		Spoonbills are found worldwide in warm tropical regions and when swamps and marshes in which they breed dry up, they may go thousands of miles in search of suitable habitat.
		Spoonbills find their food by touch more than sight; they walk in the shallows with their heads down and their long peculiar looking duck bill sifting the bottom in search of clams or shrimp.
	www.ambergriscaye.com /birds/roseate.html (484 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill : Whozoo
		Roseate spoonbills live mostly in swamplands and anywhere where aquatic plants may exist.
		One of the greatest characteristics that these Roseate Spoonbill's have is the way they feed.
		The Roseate Spoonbills seem to be very social birds.
	www.whozoo.org /Intro2001/verogarc/VG_RoseatteSpoonbill..html (294 words)

	Birds: The Roseate Spoonbill
		Audubon observed that the Roseate Spoonbill is to be met with along the marshy or muddy borders of estuaries, the mouths of rivers, on sea islands, or keys partially overgrown with bushes, and still more abundantly along the shores of the salt-water bayous, so common within a mile or two of the shore.
		The Spoonbill is said occasionally to rise suddenly on the wing, and ascend gradually in a spiral manner, to a great height.
		Usually the Spoonbill is found in the company of Herons, whose vigilance apprises it of any danger.
	www.birdnature.com /apr1898/spoonbill.html (500 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill Skull
		Roseate Spoonbill Skull - The Spoonbill has a unique beak adaptation for catching its food from water.
		This species was driven to near extinction in the early 1900's by plume hunters.
		Today, spoonbill populations are making a come back.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /roseate-spoonbill-skull.html (121 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill photo - Doug J photos at pbase.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ajaia ajaja - This long-legged wading bird is pink with red highlights, white legs and red eyes.
		Locally common in marshes, tidal ponds, sloughs and mangrove swamps along the Gulf Coast of the United States, sections of Central & South America and the West Indies.
		Images may be used for non-profit or personal use, contact photographer for other uses.
	www.pbase.com /image/21987234 (204 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill - Ajaia ajaja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		This photograph has been one of the most commented on pictures of the gallery.
		Roseate Spoonbills are becoming more common in this part of the state, and breeding here.
	www.birdforum.net /bird_view.php?bid=6793 (269 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill Photos and Information - Birding
		The Roseate Spoonbill is well loved by birders for its gorgeous pink feathers and its funny spoon-shaped beak.
		The Roseate is just over 3 pounds and has a wingspan of just over 4'.
		They use their spoon-bill to stir up the muck in shallow bay areas and eat the insects they find there.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art7981.asp (103 words)

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	IV Birds - Roseate Spoonbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sometimes strays will be tossed this way by storms that occur down in the Gulf of California where this bird is more common.
		I found a young, pink spoonbill one Christmas that had joined a flock of Cattle Egrets resting at the edge of Fig Lagoon's inlet.
		Florida Bay's Roseate Spoonbill - National Wildlife Federation profile with photos and information.
	www.imperial.cc.ca.us /birds/roseate.htm (164 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Some pictures of our newest additions at the birdhouse—three roseate spoonbill chicks born a few days ago.
		They will acquire more feathers in the coming weeks.
		The last time roseate spoonbills hatched at the National Zoo was in 1980!
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/Birds/NewsEvents/rosp.cfm (39 words)

	Roseate Spoonbill photo - Robert photos at pbase.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Roseate Spoonbill photo - Robert photos at pbase.com
		Books: Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World
		Posting to a public website does not imply public domain.
	www.pbase.com /image/21049275 (48 words)

	Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Roseate Spoonbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Roseate Spoonbill
		World Bird Guide :: Ibises and Spoonbills :: Roseate Spoonbill
		Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
	www.mangoverde.com /birdsound/spec/spec24-33.html (58 words)

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