Roseate Spoonbill Photo Gallery

Large, pink wading bird with a long, spoon-shaped bill. Adults have brighter pink shoulders and a bare yellowish green head.

Juveniles look similar to adults, but are paler pink and have a completely feathered head. Spoon-shaped bill is distinctive.

Roseate Spoonbills forage in shallow waters for aquatic invertebrates sweeping their head side to side with the bill partly opened.

Flies with its neck outstretched. Note pink underwings.

Flies with deep and strong wingbeats.

Roseate Spoonbills roost and nest in colonies with other waterbirds in trees and shrubs at the edges of wetlands and estuaries.

Nests and roosts in trees and shrubs including mangrove, sea myrtle, hackberry, and mesquite.

Roseate Spoonbills build bulky stick nests in trees and shrubs that often hang over standing water. They typically raise 3 to 4 chicks every year.

Juveniles are pale pink with a completely feathered head.

Found in freshwater and saltwater wetlands, mangroves, forested swamps, rivers, bays, estuaries, mudflats, and lagoons.

Flies with its neck stretched out with powerful wingbeats.

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