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Common Spoonbill

Platalea leucorodia

Description:

The Eurasian Spoonbill or Common Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae,

Habitat:

Diet The diet consists of adult and larval aquatic insects, molluscs, crustaceans, worms, leeches, frogs, tadpoles and small fish up to 10–15 cm long. It may also take algae or small fragments of aquatic plants (although these are possibly ingested accidentally with animal matter)

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4 Comments

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Thanks alicelongmartin,

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 11 years ago

Nice series!

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 years ago

Thank you Satyen,, ,, replacing,,

Wild Things
Wild Things 11 years ago

Beautiful Sachin! Loved the second pic!

Sachin Zaveri
Spotted by
Sachin Zaveri

India

Spotted on Jan 22, 2013
Submitted on Jan 22, 2013

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