There are many animals and birds that appear strange. Their strangeness is probably due to their adaptive responses to various challenges they encountered in the long process of evolution. The roseate spoonbill is an odd bird with bright pink feathers, red eyes, a partly bald head, and giant spoon-shaped bill. It is the bill that gave it its name, ‘spoonbill’.
The roseate spoonbill is commonly found across South America. The bird is 71 to 86 centimetres long with a wingspan of 120 to 133 centimetres. It weighs up to 1.8 kilograms. Its diet consists of crustaceans, aquatic insects, frogs, newts and very small fish ignored by larger waders. They are social beings and roost together in trees and shrubs with other large wading birds.
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