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Common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)



The spoonbills are a subfamily of the ibises and spoonbills. The beak is flat, long, straight and at the end widened spoon-like. The plumage is mostly white, the diet consists mainly of aquatic insects, larvae, small crustaceans and mollusks animal. Breeds very locally in patches of reeds and bushes in most single-kind colonies.