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The Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), or common spoonbill, is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The genus name Platalea is from Latin and means "broad", referring to the distinctive shape of the bill, and leucorodia is from Ancient Greek leukerodios "spoonbill", itself derived from leukos, "white" and erodios "heron". In England it was traditionally known as the "shovelard", a name later used for the Northern Shoveller.
Scientific Name : Platalea Leucorodia
Family : Threskiornithidae
Order : Pelecaniformes
Class : Aves
Type : Ibises And Spoonbills
Conservation Status : Least concern (LC)
Size : 85 cm
Compare Size : Kite +
Wingspan : 120 cm
Weight : 1900 g
Migratory : Migrant
Sex Alike : Yes
Nesting Season : July - November
Other Names :
English : Common Spoonbill
Hindi : चमच बाज़
Marathi : चमच्या, दर्वीमुख
Habitat:
extensive shallow, wetlands with muddy, clay or fine sandy beds. They may inhabit any type of marsh, river, lake, flooded area and mangrove swamp, whether fresh, brackish or saline
Breeding:
Eggs - 4, Sullied white, sparingly spotted and blotched with deep reddish brown.
Feeding:
aquatic insects, mollusks, newts, crustaceans, worms, leeches, frogs, tadpoles and small fish
| Male & Female | |
|---|---|
| Bill | black |
| Legs | black |
| Breast | white; In Breeding plumage has orange-yellow patch |
| Head | In Breeding plumage crown area has long white plumes |
| Neck | In Breeding plumage yellow at base of bill borderd with thick patch of orange-yellow; In Non-breeding plumage less prominent |
| Note : all white bird expect legs, bill and in breeding season has patch on breast |
|
| Immature | |
|---|---|
| Bill | paler than adults |
| Primaries | has black tips |
| Date | Location |
|---|---|
| 31 Jan 2019 | Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Rajasthan |
| 01 Feb 2019 | Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Rajasthan |
