Roseate Spoonbills
Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja); native to South America, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and the Gulf Coast of the United States and Florida as far north as St. Augustine, FL.
A pair of Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) pass a twig to start a nest. This nest was the first Roseate Spoonbill nest ever built at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm 4/21/2010.
A pair of Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) pass a twig to start a nest. This was the first Roseate Spoonbills nest on record ever built that far north in Florida (4/21/2010 at 1:00 PM). Taken at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park.
A Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) building a nest, is harassed by a Great Egret (Ardea alba).
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) feeding its babies.
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) mother shading her babies.
Rosette Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) looking for a mate.
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) rookery.
Roseate Spoonbill feeding her baby.
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) sitting on her eggs.
Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) with babies. One of them is bickering with the the Tricolored Herons nesting above them.
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) shading her babies.
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) feeding her babies.
Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) with their babies.
Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) nestlings.
