Royal Spoonbill
Platalea regia
Aves
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-15 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Freshwater wetland
- Range
- Oceania
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Uncommon
About
Royal spoonbills are black-billed birds that live in the shallow waters of wetlands across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. They are one of six spoonbill species worldwide, and they use their long, flat bills to sweep across the water and catch their prey, which includes crustaceans, fish, and small insects.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae
- Genus
- Platalea
- Species
- Platalea regia