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African spoonbill
Platalea alba
13.9661, 15.9521
Field Notes
Description:
Large white waterbirds with distinctive long, flattened and spoon shaped bills. Characteristic for African Spoonbill is the red face and red legs, and grey bill bordered in red.
Habitat:
Common in Sahel belt through East Africa down to South Africa; and seen in wetlands - lakes, estuaries, floodplains... Here, seen in Chad, in semi-desertic Bahr-el-Gazal region, in a small village lake (I totally forgot the name of the village, but it is somewhere between Moussoro and Mao)...
Notes:
According to my most trusted and most used field guide "Bird of Africa - south of the Sahara" (Sinclair and Ryan) it is mainly absent from forested Western and Central Africa.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedDecember 12, 2017
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