Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
Roseate Spoonbill
Platalea ajaja
- legendaris
- 92 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Pink because of shrimp, weird because of evolution. Sweeps your message across the shallows.
- Populasi
- ~68,500–171,000 mature individuals globally, with a stable trend
- Habitat
- Shallow fresh, brackish, and coastal saltwater wetlands — marshes, swamps, lagoons, and mangrove-lined lakes and estuaries, typically from sea level up to about 1,000 m
- Fakta menarik
- The Roseate Spoonbill's pink plumage comes not from its genes but from carotenoid pigments (like canthaxanthin) in the crustaceans it eats, the same coloration mechanism that pinks a flamingo.
- Sebaran
- Coastal and inland wetlands of the Americas: southeastern/southern United States (Florida, Texas, Louisiana, with recent marked northward range expansion — vagrants recorded as far as Washington D.C., upstate New York, and New Hampshire), Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America east of the Andes to Argentina/Uruguay — roughly 44 countries/territories
- Makanan
- Crustaceans, small fish, aquatic insects, mollusks, frogs, and newts, captured by sweeping its spatulate bill side to side through shallow water
- Ukuran
- 0,79 m
- Bentang sayap
- 1,26 m
- Masa hidup
- 10 tahun
