spoonbill

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The beak is flattened laterally, that is, in a plane at right angles to that of a spoonbill or duck.

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  1. noun Any of several long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, similar to the ibis but having a long, flat bill with a broadly spatulate tip.
  2. noun Any of various broad-billed ducks, such as the shoveler.
  3. noun See paddlefish.

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  • Army Corps of Engineers crusade to protect the Cape Sable seaside sparrow by diverting the freshwater flow was sure to doom the roseate spoonbill, a dazzling pink wading bird, and the Everglades kite and harm all of northeastern Florida Bay. —  Buchanan, Edna - Cold Case Squad (v1.0) (html).html
  • Katydid was excited to see the roseate spoonbill in the bird exhibit. —  HS Blog - Homeschool Blog
  • More Corpus birds: Roseate spoonbill, egrets, herons, gulls, terns, osprey, peregrine falcon, crested caracara.
  • His power as a colorist stood him in good stead again, and more than once he received a rare word of praise, feeling quite elated when, one day, late in the summer, Dr. Edelstein said to him I have much gonfidence in your golor sense, Golin At the same station, one of the younger men was finishing a monograph on the spoonbill-cat, a sturgeon of the lower Mississippi, often six feet in length and a hundred pounds in weight, just coming into commercial importance as the source of caviare. —  The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
  • Birds of the same habits are found beside it--the ibis, pigeon, spoonbill, and toucan are seen feeding together. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
 

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/ˈspunbɪl/
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