Roseate

We saw a Roseate Spoonbill which has one of the coolest scientific names ever -- ajaia ajaja, osprey, purple gallinules, herons... the list goes on and on.

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.: Biking With Alligators Ph.D. Stephanie Sarkis 2011

We saw a Roseate Spoonbill which has one of the coolest scientific names ever -- ajaia ajaja, osprey, purple gallinules, herons... the list goes on and on.

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.: Biking With Alligators Ph.D. Stephanie Sarkis 2011

Species such as the Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) and Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) have there largest breeding populations in the Pantanal and time their reproduction to coincide with a period of high prey abundance.

Pantanal 2007

Roseate good-nature lit up her gaze; her features showed curves of decision and judgment; and she might have been regarded without much mistake as a warm-hearted, quick-spirited, handsome girl.

Wessex Tales 2006

Roseate spoonbills uttering spoonerisms — Carol Jacob.

Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

Roseate or sombre your humour as you patrol the reefs, it is liable to be changed in a flash into clashing tints by inadvertent contact with a warty ghoul of a sea-urchin, a single one of whose agonising spines never fails to bring you face to face with one of the vividest realities of life.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Roseate clouds were gliding across the sky and causing stray fragments of the ice, which, seemingly, yearned to engulf me, to assume reflected tints of a similar hue.

Through Russia 2003

Roseate Spoonbills wheeled into view above the swamp, but quickly passed from sight.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

Roseate clouds were gliding across the sky and causing stray fragments of the ice, which, seemingly, yearned to engulf me, to assume reflected tints of a similar hue.

Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

There are several kinds, and they rise as we pass, and I see, for the first time, the Roseate Tern, a sea-swallow with deep lavender and black feathers, rather telling with its scarlet bill.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900