1) Long-beaked wading bird 2) One may be roseate 3) Wader 4) Wading bird
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Spoonbills are a group of large, long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which also includes the ibises. ==Biology== All spoonbills have large, flat, spatulate bills and feed by wading through shallow water, sweeping the partly opened bill from side to side. The moment any small aquatic creature touches the inside of the bill—a...
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• (n.) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip. • (n.) The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy. • (n.) The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2. • (n.) The paddlefish.
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any member of six species of long-legged wading birds that constitute the subfamily Plataleinae of the family Threskiornithidae (order ... [1 related articles]
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primitive North American fish, a species of paddlefish (q.v.).
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<ornithology> Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip. ... The roseate spoonbill of America (Ajaja ajaja), and the European spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) are the best known. The royal spoonbill (P. Regia) of Australia ...
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Spoon'bill` noun (Zoology) (a) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera
Ajaja and
Platalea , and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip. » The roseate spoonbill of America (
Ajaja ajaja ), and the Euro...
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The spoonbill (Plataleidae) is a family of stork-like wading birds with very wide and flat bills. They are found near shallow, fresh water in most parts of the world except northern Europe, Asia and America.
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n] - wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
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noun wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
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Any of several large wading birds of the ibis family Threskiornithidae, order Ciconiiformes, characterized by a long, flat bill, dilated at the tip in the shape of a spoon. Spoonbills are white or pink, and up to 90 cm/3 ft tall. Their feet are adapted for wading, and the birds obtain their food,...
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