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Roseate Spoonbill

Platalea ajaja

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 21,969, February 21,014, March 23,872, April 45,295, May 27,753, June 13,471, July 12,116, August 12,503, September 14,858, October 15,827, November 20,612, December 19,979.
United States26,859
Texas9,707
Virginia5,410
Maryland4,970
Arizona4,069
North Carolina3,631
Canada3,582
New Jersey3,053
Mexico2,852
New York2,481

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Traits

Group and habits

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassBirds · Aves
OrderPelicans, Herons, and Allies · Pelecaniformes
FamilyIbises and Spoonbills · Threskiornithidae
GenusSpoonbills · Platalea

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