Roseate Soaring

by Paul Rebmann

Title

Roseate Soaring

Artist

Paul Rebmann

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

A striking image of a single roseate spoonbill flying directly overhead against a partly cloudy sky with wings fully outstretched.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
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A Birding Group - Wings,
Go Take A Hike Photography Group (5/26/2024),
Images That Excite You,
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Red and Blue,
The Gallery Wall,
The World We See Group &
Wildlife ONE A DAY (10/16/2023)

This distinctive bird is a resident of Florida, breeding from the Keys north to Tampa Bay and dispersing along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts from July through October. Roseate spoonbills are found in coastal flats, lagoons and marshes, rarely inland, and often nest in colonies with herons.
They are large wading birds with a mostly pink body, white on the back and neck, with a bare head. The spatulate bill of Platalea ajaja is swept back and forth through the water and mud feeling for aquatic invertebrates.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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September 1st, 2013

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