Roseate spoonbills in flight
Images copyright by Mark A. Chappell
Roseate spoonbills are uniquly bizarre birds (in my opinion), with bright pink and orange colors coupled with strikingly strange bare heads and the iconic spoon-shaped bill. Spoonbills feed by straining small organisms out of shallow water, as some of these birds are doing. I took nearly all of these pictures at the famous Ding Darling refuge on Sannibel Island, near Fort Meyers, Florida, as the bird arrived to roost late in the afternoon. The pale juvenile bird (middle left, below) was in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas
