Royal Spoonbill: Female

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Storks (Ciconiiformes)

Family:

Ibis & Spoonbill (Threskiornithidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

This Photo:

🔍Female🔎

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?

This species is classed as

EN (Endangered)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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