![]() | Yellow-billed Spoonbill Face Marking | Royal Spoonbill Male, profile, showing 'teeth' | ![]() | |||
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Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Storks (Ciconiiformes) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Ibis & Spoonbill (Threskiornithidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)This Photo: | Male, anterior | Thank you Jason Graham for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere The two specimens here, photographed together, where different. We think the more orange eye brow was a male, as it had a larger bill, while the other was a female. Taken in November, they may have been coming out of breeding plummage?
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