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Roseate spoonbill        Images © 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.

  • Canon 1D Mk. II or 1D3, 500 mm IS lens and 2X converter, fill-in flash (2006, 2008)