Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Taxobox
name = Yellow-billed Spoonbill
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1



regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Ciconiiformes
familia = Threskiornithidae
genus = "Platalea"
species = "P. flavipes"
binomial = "Platalea flavipes"
binomial_authority = Gould, 1838

The Yellow-billed Spoonbill ("Platalea flavipes") is common in south-east Australia, not unusual on the remainder of the continent, vagrant to New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Its food includes aquatic life, and it nests in trees, marshes or reed-beds.

It occurs in shallows of fresh wetlands and occasionally on dry pasture. It often roosts in trees. Feeds by sweeping bill from side to side. They always fly with their head extended.


References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern


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