The largest mangrove ecosystem in the US, it provides a home to an array of bird species such as Florida's state bird, the
Roseate Spoonbill, manatees, dolphins, alligators, sea otters, pelicans and more.
Caption: EGRETS AND A
ROSEATE SPOONBILL in Everglades National Park.
The roster of southern Illinois birds in 2018 felt Floridian, with brown pelican, mottled duck, anhinga, white ibis and
roseate spoonbill all reported.
For most people, nothing will ruin a trip as quick, but a
roseate spoonbill is good for fixing that.
AYAYA variant of 'ajaja', the
roseate spoonbill. (Webster's New International Dictionary, 1924)
The construction of the stadium would upset the natural habitat of endangered species such as
Roseate Spoonbill and other wildlife as they would be forced out of Miami's Biscayne Bay.
See birds ranging from the
Roseate Spoonbill to the Great Kiskadee.
Only time will reveal the spill's impact on many Gulf-breeding species, including the Brown Pelican, American Oystercatcher, Wilson's Plover, Reddish Egret, Least Tern, Black Skimmer,
Roseate Spoonbill, Clapper Rail, Seaside Sparrow, and Mottled Duck.
The Banana River itself is a significant part of the Indian River Lagoon, a 156-mile long estuary that is home to more than 479 species of shrimp and crab, 400 species of fish, 260 types of mollusks, reptiles such as the American alligator, Atlantic green turtle and Eastern indigo snake, and birds including the little blue heron, the
roseate spoonbill and the least tern.
We documented the nesting of 15 species of non-Laridae waterbirds: Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), Tricolored Egret (Egretta tricolor), Snowy Egret (Egretta thula), Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea), Great Egret (Ardea alba), Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), Black-crowned Nightheron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Yellow-crowned Night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), Green Heron (Butorides virescens),
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), White Ibis (Eudocimus albus), Black-bellied Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis), Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris), Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), and Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus).
Witness white ibis, osprey, or possibly a
roseate spoonbill.
roseate spoonbill - tropical rose-colored New World spoonbill