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Platalea alba
Large white waterbirds with distinctive long, flattened and spoon shaped bills. Characteristic for African Spoonbill is the red face and red legs, and grey bill bordered in red.
Common in Sahel belt through East Africa down to South Africa; and seen in wetlands - lakes, estuaries, floodplains... Here, seen in Chad, in semi-desertic Bahr-el-Gazal region, in a small village lake (I totally forgot the name of the village, but it is somewhere between Moussoro and Mao)...
According to my most trusted and most used field guide "Bird of Africa - south of the Sahara" (Sinclair and Ryan) it is mainly absent from forested Western and Central Africa.
Spotted on Feb 20, 2014
Submitted on Dec 12, 2017
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