Black-faced Spoonbill
Platalea minorTemminck, CJ; Schlegel, H, 1849
English (US) Black-faced Spoonbill
The Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor) 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: breeds northeastern China and Korea; winters to southeastern AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Platalea minor
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Black-faced Spoonbill
- Described by
- Temminck, CJ; Schlegel, H, 1849
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Temminck, CJ; Schlegel, H, 1849
- Type locality
- Japan.
- Original description
- Fauna Japonica sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1825-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit. Vol. 4. Aves p.120 pl.76
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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