African Spoonbill

Another cool bird we observed was the African Spoonbill. The African Spoonbill is a distinctive pale water bird with long pink-red legs, a bare bright pink-red face, and an odd and distinctive spoon-shaped bill that is obvious even in flight.

The juvenile lacks the bright pink-red skin and has black tipped wings in flight.

The African Spoonbill prefers large, quiet, shallow waterbodies where it forages by swinging its head from side-to-side, slicing its bill through the water, searching for small fish and aquatic invertebrates.

It is mostly nomadic, wandering in response to local rainfall. eBird

It breeds colonially in heronries.