Tag: Roseate Spoonbills
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Pink
To northern eyes tired with dreary colors and wintry whites and greys, the sighting of a Roseate Spoonbill all resplendent in its pink feathers is such a welcome visual treat in Florida. The bare greenish head and broad flattened bill that it swishes around underwater or through shallow mud looking for small fish and crustaceans…
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Bird Fever
Things right themselves – sometimes. A few weeks ago, while exploring a trail at the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, we came across a group of beautiful Roseate Spoonbills feeding in a mangrove marsh. Their pink feathers always remind me of peonies in the early summer. It is a quirk of nature…
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