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Eurasian Spoonbill

Photo: @valerio_cedrone · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Birds

Eurasian Spoonbill

Platalea leucorodia

Observations in the area
18
Last sighting
2 August 2026
Category
Birds
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The species

The Eurasian spoonbill or common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The genus name Platalea is from Latin and means "broad", referring to the distinctive shape of the bill, and leucorodia is from Ancient Greek leukerodios "spoonbill", itself derived from leukos, "white" and erodios "heron".

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