A bird as large as a Heron but equiped with a spoon on the end of the beak. It looks like it’s vacuuming the Manukau Mud flats when it is on the edge of the water.
I have no idea what it eats,
Royal Spoonbill (4/11)
Pamela Moresby
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Wow it does have a large beak.
Thanks so much Carol, the end of its beak is the shape of a Spoon.
I understand because I do not know either what they can eat with a beak like theirs…
Thanks History Gal, I have seen them by the edge of the water in the mud flats. They move their beaks up and down in the mud much like a vacuum cleaner. I would assume they suck up food through their long beak and eat living organisms that we cant see.