Roseate spoonbill
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 these birds were doing. I took all the photos at the famous Ding Darling refuge on Sannibel Island, near Fort Meyers, Florida.
Go to this page for pictures of spoonbills in flight.
