. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . to Florida. HERONS, STORKS, IBISES—Order Herodiones Family Plataleidse ROSEATE SPOONBILL 183. Ajaia ajaja. 33 in. Head entirely bald in adults, and only feathered tothe eyes in young birds; bill long, thin, flat and verymuch broadened at the end, variously colored withgreen, blue and orange; ejes and legs red. Young birds,without the bright carmine shoulders or saffron tail ofthe adults. These peculiar but handsomely tinted birdswere formerly abundant in Florida and in the atljoin-ing states, but so many have been k
. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . to Florida. HERONS, STORKS, IBISES—Order Herodiones Family Plataleidse ROSEATE SPOONBILL 183. Ajaia ajaja. 33 in. Head entirely bald in adults, and only feathered tothe eyes in young birds; bill long, thin, flat and verymuch broadened at the end, variously colored withgreen, blue and orange; ejes and legs red. Young birds,without the bright carmine shoulders or saffron tail ofthe adults. These peculiar but handsomely tinted birdswere formerly abundant in Florida and in the atljoin-ing states, but so many have been killed for their feath-ers, that they are now rare and confined to the mostinaccessible swamps of Southern Florida. Spoonbillstravel and nest in communities; their flight is strongand Heron-like, but they carry their neck fully extended,their ample wings slowly beating the air. Nest.—A frail structure of sticks, in mangroves orlow trees; 3 or 4 pale, greenish blue eggs splashed withbrown () ; :\Iay, June. Range.—Florida and tlie Gulf States, and 113
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