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Spoonbill

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Field Notes

Description:

Chicks in there nest

Habitat:

Sea coasts

Species ID Suggestions

Eurasian Spoonbill

Platalea leucorodia

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Caleb Steindel
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Comments (3)
Caleb Steindel
seeing as though eurasian spoonbills are the only spoonbill species found in iraq, it wasn't hard to narrow down :)
keithp2012
I never saw a spoonbill chick before, I see how their bill is developing its shape.
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PublishedJune 6, 2013

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