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  1. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    The distinctive spoon-shaped bill helps identify this species. Note the dark red legs and facial skin indicating a non-breeding adult. Spoonbills forage by sweeping their spatulate bills back and forth in the shallow water catching invertebrates via "tactolocation." The bill clamps shut when...
    • jmorlan
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill namibia platalea alba
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Africa
  2. African Spoonbill.jpg

    African Spoonbill.jpg

    African Spoonbill stork is a wading bird. Here it was foraging for fish and other edible creatures in water.
    • Nick Muri
    • Media item
    • #birdphotography #birdwatching african spoonbill kenya platalea alba
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Africa
  3. savage encounter 2

    savage encounter 2

    a David vs Goliath moment....
    • max1
    • Media item
    • platalea alba re-knobbed coot/ african spoonbills
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Africa
  4. Savage encounter

    Savage encounter

    the coot swims steadily at the spoonbills
    • max1
    • Media item
    • platalea alba re-knobbed coot/ african spoonbills
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Africa
  5. do my feet look big on this?

    do my feet look big on this?

    he seems to be studying them very intently...
    • max1
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill platalea alba
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Africa
  6. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    The Bund Road, Banjul, The Gambia
    • d.flack
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill flight platalea alba
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Africa
  7. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    • mikemik
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill platalea alba
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Africa
  8. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    • charelli
    • Media item
    • platalea alba
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Africa
  9. African spoonbill

    African spoonbill

    • d.flack
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill flight platalea alba
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Africa
  10. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    • d.flack
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill flight platalea alba
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Africa
  11. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    The Gambia November 2016 with guide Ebou
    • d.flack
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill flight platalea alba
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Africa
  12. Bookends

    Bookends

    curious to see a sleeping spoonbill and a preening sacred ibis up close and personal.....there was a bit more space, they didnt have to be that close!
    • max1
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill / sacred ibis platalea alba
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Africa
  13. Yellow-billed Stork, African Spoonbill

    Yellow-billed Stork, African Spoonbill

    • volker sthamer
    • Media item
    • platalea alba
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Africa
  14. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    • volker sthamer
    • Media item
    • platalea alba
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: Africa
  15. Black Heron, little Egret

    Black Heron, little Egret

    ....and at the back an African Spoonbill
    • volker sthamer
    • Media item
    • platalea alba
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: Africa
  16. African spoonbill

    African spoonbill

    • amesta
    • Media item
    • platalea alba
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Africa
  17. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill seen at Amanzimtoti Bird Park, South Africa
    • AdamCruickshank
    • Media item
    • platalea alba
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Africa
  18. African Spoonbill ETH SER

    African Spoonbill ETH SER

    • rdavis
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill chaleleka lake ethiopia platalea alba
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Africa
  19. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    • d.flack
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill platalea alba
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Africa
  20. African spoonbill

    African spoonbill

    • gras4711
    • Media item
    • gras4711; african spoonbill; platalea alba
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Africa
  21. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill dreaming!
    • marko.marais
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill platalea alba
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Africa
  22. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    Taken on Lake Naivasha
    • colincurry
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill platalea alba
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Africa
  23. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    this spoonbill woke up briefly to show us his/her (not sure which this is) arabesque moves
    • max1
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill platalea alba
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Africa
  24. Cape Teal

    Cape Teal

    With this group of Cape Teals and an African Spoonbill preparing to roost my series of African birds comes to an end. It was astonishing that in six days I could photograph seventy species of birds most of them being lifers for me. This is why I am thinking at a new trip to Africa.
    • crs
    • Media item
    • african spoonbill cape teal anas capensis platalea alba
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Africa
  25. African Spoonbill

    African Spoonbill

    • BillN
    • Media item
    • platalea alba
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Africa
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