Roseate Spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja) Science Article 1 abstract We conducted a study in 1978-1980 of the nesting colony of Roseate Spoonbills (Ajaia ajaja) in a relatively polluted environment at Nueces Bay, Texas. For 154 marked nests, the average clutch size was 3.0 eggs; 73% of the eggs hatched, and 87% of the nests were successful […]
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Roseate Spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja)
[order] CICONIIFORMES | [family] Threskiornithidae | [latin] Ajaia ajaja | [authority] Linnaeus, 1758 | [UK] Roseate Spoonbill | [FR] Spatule rosee | [DE] Rosaloffler | [ES] Espatula Rosada | [NL] Rode Lepelaar Subspecies Monotypic species Genus The genus Ajaja is indigenous to Central and South America, the other Spoonblls all lumped in Platalea are New […]