Roseate Spoonbill Skull Replica

$120.00

The Roseate Spoonbill feeds in shallow fresh or coastal waters by swinging its bill from side to side as it steadily walks through the water, often in groups. The bird feeds on crustaceans, bits of plant material, aquatic insects, mollusks, frogs, newts and very small fish, such as minnows.

Description

Roseate Spoonbill Skull Replica measures 8.6 inches. Roseate Spoonbill Skull Replica is museum quality polyurethane resin cast, made in USA. 2-part skull (separate cranium & jaw). California Academy of Sciences Polyurethane cast of original specimen. Our precise skull can be used as a birdwatching teaching tool, museum bird skull exhibit, home décor bird skull, or office décor skull.

Roseate Spoonbills are medium-sized waterbirds with a football-shaped body and long legs. The long bill that is flattened into a spoon at the end protrudes from their small head. They fly with their long necks outstretched and often rest with it curled into an S shape.

Both sexes of these waterbirds weigh from 42.3 to 63.5 ounces. Their wingspan is 47.2 to 51.2 inches and their length is 27.9 to 33.9 inches.

These waterbirds are pale pink birds with brighter pink shoulders and rump. They have a white neck and a partially feathered, yellowish green head from which their red eyes shine. Juveniles are paler pink and have a completely feathered head for 3 years until they attain adult breeding plumage.

Roseate Spoonbills wade through shallow water swinging their head side to side with their bill under the water feeling for prey. They tend to forage with their bodies held in a horizontal position just above the water with head hanging down.

They fly with the neck outstretched, dipping slightly below the body. Spoonbills forage, roost, and nest in groups often with other ibises, herons, and egrets.

Roseate Spoonbills forage in the shallows of fresh, brackish, and marine waters including bays, mangroves, forested swamps, and wetlands. They nest and roost in trees and shrubs along the water’s edge.

Like the American flamingo, their pink color is diet-derived, consisting of the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin. Another carotenoid, astaxanthin, can also be found deposited in flight and body feathers. The colors can range from pale pink to bright magenta, depending on age, whether breeding or not, and location.

Nests are simple scrapes in the ground, ranging from 2.4 to about 4.8 inches in diameter. These scrapes are unlined at first, but while incubating and brooding, the adults often add bits of shell, rock, or vegetation to the scrape over a period of several weeks.

They lay eggs that are brown with dark speckles and streaks. Their Clutch Size is 1-5 eggs. The chicks hatch with a downy cover, eyes open and able to walk, however they tend to stay in the nest.

Roseate Spoonbill Facts:
Conservation status: Least concern
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pelecaniformes
Family: Threskiornithidae
Genus: Platalea
Species: P. ajaja
Binomial name: Platalea ajaja

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Additional information

Weight 2.5 lbs
Dimensions 8.6 in