Roseate Spoonbill
Platalea ajajaLinnaeus, C, 1758
English (US) Roseate Spoonbill
The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills) in the order Pelecaniformes.
Range: southern USA to northern Argentina, Brazil, and West IndiesRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Platalea ajaja
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Described by
- Linnaeus, C, 1758
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Platalea Ajaja
- Described by
- Linnaeus, C, 1758
- Type locality
- 'in America australi' = Rio Sao Francisco, eastern Brazil, ex Marcgrave, designated by Berlepsch, 1908, Novit. Zool., 15, p. 301.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.140
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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