Roseate Spoonbill Line-up
by Dawn Currie
Title
Roseate Spoonbill Line-up
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Dawn Currie
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Photograph - Digital
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Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. Roseate Spoonbills line-up, their beautiful pink feathers set out against the blue waters of the wetlands. Photographed in Viera, Florida.
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Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja): The Spoonbill's bright pink coloring leads many Florida tourists to think they have seen a flamingo, but take a closer look and you'll notice an unusually shaped bill that makes this wading bird quite distinctive. The Roseate Spoonbill uses its odd bill to strain small food items out of the water. They feeds while wading in shallow water, sweeping their bill back and forth. Sensitive nerve endings snap bill shut when prey is found.
Resident in southern Florida, throughout the Caribbean, and along the Pacific Coast of Mexico south and along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Yucatan Peninsula. Preferred habitats include mangroves, saltwater lagoons, and large, shallow lakes.
I enjoy watching and photographing these birds in my favorite Brevard County birding locations including Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Titusville Florida, the TM Goodwin Waterfowl Management are near Fellsmere Florida, and the Click Ponds of Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands near Viera Florida.
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June 26th, 2014
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Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This beautiful image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Shadow Silhouettes and Reflections Outdoors” Group Home Page. If enabled, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2018 September: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Thank you for your participation in the group! (September 10, 2018)
Don Columbus
Congratulations Dawn, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings"! I invite you to place it in the group's "2017 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
William Tasker
Thou shalt not envy...thou shalt not envy... There is going to be some kind of celebration when I finally see one of these birds! In the meantime, I have your lovely lineup of my covetousness. :) Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World. L/F
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