Platalea ajajaPlatalea ajaja. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A roseate spoonbill takes flight from a lake north of Kennedy Space Center. Spoonbills are so named because of the broad spatulate tip on its long straight bill. They obtain food by sweeping their bills from side to side and scooping up whatever they encounter. The Center shares a boundary north, south and west with the 37,230 ha Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which is a habitat for more than 310 species of birds, 25 mammals, 117 fishes and 65 amphibians and reptiles. The marshes and open water of the refuge also provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and other species of marsh and shore birds.Source: NASA media archive.
New Zealand Little BitternArdetta maculata (W. L. Buller) is a synonym of Ardeola novaezelandeae (A. C. Purdie) which is identical with the New Zealand Little Bittern (Ixobrychus novaezelandeae)From: Walter Lawry Buller: Notes on the Little Bittern of New Zealand (Ardetta maculata). In: A History of the Birds of New Zealand.Source: Wikimedia Commons: File:Ardettamaculata.jpg
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Category hierarchy: Biomes | Water & Wetlands | WetlandsDescription: Four species of waterbirds in a protected wetland.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Lens: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.864999470000000e+001; Longitude: -8.069921720000001e+001
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Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: A Great Blue Heron standing amongst an expanse of marsh grasses.Locality: Latitude: 2.864999470000000e+001; Longitude: -8.069921720000001e+001
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Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: A brown pelican in the waters off Sanibel Island.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Lens: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.644035900000000e+001; Longitude: -8.211370490000000e+001
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Category hierarchy: Biomes | Water & Wetlands | WetlandsDescription: Four species of waterbirds in a protected wetland.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Lens: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.864999470000000e+001; Longitude: -8.069921720000001e+001
Public Domain 2011 Randolph Femmer Courtesy of life.nbii.gov
NBII images
Category hierarchy: Biomes | Water & Wetlands | WetlandsDescription: Four species of waterbirds in a protected wetland.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Lens: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.864999470000000e+001; Longitude: -8.069921720000001e+001
Public Domain 2011 Randolph Femmer Courtesy of life.nbii.gov
NBII images
Category hierarchy: Animals | BirdsDescription: Four species of waterbirds in a protected wetland.Capture device: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTiCapture details: Lens: Canon 75-300mm zoom lenseLocality: Latitude: 2.864999470000000e+001; Longitude: -8.069921720000001e+001
