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Spoonbills are monogamous, but, so far as is known, only for one season at a time. Most species nest in trees or reed beds , often with ibises or herons . The male gathers nesting material—mostly sticks and reeds, sometimes taken from an old nest—the female weaves it into a large, shallow bowl or platform which varies in its shape and ...
A molecular phylogenetic study of the spoonbills based on mitochondrial DNA found that the Eurasian spoonbill is sister taxon to a clade containing the royal and black-faced spoonbills. [8] In England it was traditionally known as the "shovelard", a name later used for the northern shoveler. [9] Three subspecies are recognised. These are listed ...
The renowned ornithologist John Gould first described the royal spoonbill in 1838, naming it Platalea regia and noting its similarity to the Eurasian spoonbill (P. leucorodia). [2] A 2010 study of mitochondrial DNA of the spoonbills by Chesser and colleagues found that the royal and black-faced spoonbills were each other's closest relatives. [3]
The African spoonbill (Platalea alba) is a long-legged wading bird [2] of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The species is widespread across Africa and Madagascar , including Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Black-faced spoonbills reached a serious low in population in the 1990s, but by 2003 their numbers increased to at least 1,069 counted individuals. [5] While it is known that their breeding area covers northeastern China and several islands between North and South Korea, [6] human-assisted breeding efforts have not been overly successful due to the difficulty in sexing the black-faced ...
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.
Trung Thu is a commune (xã) and village of the Tủa Chùa District of Điện Biên Province, northwestern Vietnam This page was last edited ...
A spoonbill is a large, long-legged wading bird in the family Threskiornithidae. Spoonbill may also refer to: Spoonbill catfish, a primitive Chondrostean ray-finned fish; USS Spoonbill, a Bluebird-class motor minesweeper; The Spoonbills, a "secret army" of innkeepers and peasants in John Buchan's novel Midwinter