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Topic Categories: Birding • Education • Mystery Birds • Photography • Teaching • Travel
Posted on: December 23, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea (Ajaia) ajaj, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea (Ajaia) ajaj, photographed at Arthur Storey Park, Houston, Texas. [I will identify these birds for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 5 December 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Comments
In this case, the pink on the wings and pink turning to black on the long legs gives this species away- "ouch!", and with a "noisy" drake in the background it's no wonder the female "flatbill" is hiding her head!
Posted by: David Hilmy | December 23, 2009 10:25 AM
Bilingual puns, cryptic clues, what will we get next!!
Posted by: Adrian | December 23, 2009 10:54 AM
Bilingual puns, cryptic clues, what will we get next!! Spoonfed answers?
Posted by: Adrian | December 23, 2009 10:56 AM
i am looking for very difficult mystery birds so david can immediately satisfy his desire to ID them without having to wait for the less expert in the crowd to post a few IDs .. perhaps as a christmas present?
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | December 23, 2009 11:06 AM
oops, sorry Grrl, sometimes I see it all through roseate-tinted glasses and get carried away! (actually, I'll be out of town diving for a few days so you'll get a break from me and my exuberance- and let's hope the "jagged" one, Carcharodon, takes a break too!)
Posted by: David Hilmy | December 23, 2009 11:33 AM
Just a quick note- in 2002 the AOU merged Ajaia into Platalea, the genus for the five other species of spoonbills, so we should now descibe the Roseate Spoonbill as Platalea ajaja.
Posted by: David Hilmy | December 25, 2009 6:00 PM