Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor), adult in breeding plumage, Mai Po Nature Reserve,Hong Kong April 2022

---

Photo was taken from a public birdwatching hide at Mai Po Nature Reserve, Hong Kong, overlooking Deep Bay. Black-faced Spoonbill spends the winter in Hong Kong, and this breeding plumage bird is getting ready to migrate back to its’ breeding grounds near the Korean Peninsula.

---

Size: 3441px × 2294px
Location: Mai Po, Deep Bay, Hong Kong
Photo credit: © John Holmes / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: adult, bay, bill, bird, black-faced, breeding, china, chinese, color, colour, copy, crest, crested, deep, delta, endangered, environment, fauna, feeding, fish, foraging, golden, habitat, hong, horizontal, image, inlet, kong, mai, minor, morning, natural, nature, outdoors, pearl, photograph, platalea, plumage, po, ramsar, reserve, shallow, shallows, site, space, spoon, spoonbill, sunshine, territories, tidal, vulnerable, wading, walking, water, waterbird, wild, wildlife