Roseate Spoonbill
by Karen Wiles
Title
Roseate Spoonbill
Artist
Karen Wiles
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"ROSEATE SPOONBILL" by KAREN WILES
I was so lucky to come upon a Roseate Spoonbill in the Florida Everglades and even luckier to have her stay and watch me watch her, as I clicked away my camera...A beautiful and exotic bird with pink feathers and a spoon shaped bill, so different from any other bird, and so exotically beautiful!
so rare to see out in the open and especially to capture an image in their natural habitat.
The Roseate Spoonbill is found along the south Florida coast from the Florida Keys north to Tampa, with some populations in northeastern Florida and the eastern coast of Texas down to Mexico. A major period of decline for the spoonbill occurred in the early 1800s when the wings of this beautiful creature were made into fans, a "regular article of trade" in St. Augustine, according to John Audubon. The millinery or "hat trade" also took a heavy toll on the spoonbill in the late 1800s. Although their feathers were never in as great of demand as the plumes of the egrets because they faded, spoonbills were still slaughtered along with many plume birds, and their numbers declined. The establishment of Everglades National Park in 1947 seemed to have a positive affect on south Florida's spoonbill population, which began reusing nesting sites that hadn't been occupied since the late 1800s.
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February 18th, 2014
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