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Lovely to watch, photograph and film this Spoonbill feeding at Loch of Spiggie yesterday evening. Only the sixth Shetland record and the first since 2007. Footage by Hugh. | Shetland Wildlife

Have you ever looked at a spoonbill and wondered how that “spoon” actually works? Here’s how! Spoonbills sweep their heads from side to side while walking through shallow water or mud, with the bill held slightly open. Sensitive structures called “papillae” inside the bill tell the bird when it has come into contact with a tasty food item, and the bill quickly closes around the prey. Spoonbills primarily feed on small fish and aquatic invertebrates, though they will also pick up other small aqua

Two roseate spoonbill chicks hatched at the Zoo! The bird department has been successfully breeding the roseate spoonbill since 1967, one of the longest-standing roseate spoonbill breeding programs in the world. The chicks are all hand-reared by bird staff and fed a specially customized formula made of egg, vitamins, minerals and other components of the bird’s natural diet. Roseate spoonbills were over-harvested to the extent that by 1890, all Texas breeding colonies had been wiped out and the A

Roseate Spoonbill, A Species of Ibises Spoonbills (Threskiornithidae) Its legs, bill, neck and spatulate bill all appear elongated. Adults have a bare greenish head ("golden buff" when breeding) and a white neck, back and breast (with a tuft of pink feathers in the center when breeding), and are otherwise a deep pink. The bill is grey. There is no significant sexual dimorphism. Like the American flamingo, their pink color is diet-derived, consisting of the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin. Speci