La historia
I photographed this Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) at the Nowen Bridge in Puerto Concordia, Meta, Colombia, in febrero de 2021. Its pink color comes from its diet, through the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin, and can range from pale pink to bright magenta depending on age, breeding condition and location. It is 71 to 86 centimeters long, with a wingspan de 120 to 133 centimeters. In flight it alternates groups of stiff, shallow wingbeats with glides. It is a social wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae.
I made this frame with a Canon R5 and the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender, at 1/500 sec, f/16, ISO 1600. IUCN lists the Roseate Spoonbill as Least Concern with a stable population.
©2021 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) pertenece a la familia Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2025), with the population trend listed as stable. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
