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Platalea minor (Black-faced Spoonbill)

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor) has the most restricted distribution of all spoonbills, and it is the only one regarded as endangered. Spoonbills are large water birds with dorso-ventrally flattened, spatulate bills. These birds use a tactile method of feeding, wading in the water and sweeping their beaks from side-to-side to detect prey. Confined to the coastal areas of eastern Asia, it seems that it was once common throughout its area of distribution. It has a niche existence on only a few small rocky islands off the west coast of North Korea, with four wintering sites at Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam, as well as other places where they have been observed in migration. Wintering also occurs in Jeju, South Korea, Kyushu and Okinawa, Japan, and the Red River delta in Viet
View Wikipedia Record: Platalea minor

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Platalea minor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
63
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.7227
EDGE Score: 4.83455
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.707 lbs (1.228 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  5
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Migration [4]  Intracontinental
Snout to Vent Length [5]  30 inches (76 cm)
Wing Span [6]  3.608 feet (1.1 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Arao-higata National Wildlife Protection Area 1863 Kyushu, Japan      
Shankou Mangrove Wetland Reserve 19768 Guangxi, China  
Yancheng Nature Reserve V 711488 China    

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No

Prey / Diet

Acentrogobius caninus (dogtoothed goby)[7]
Planiliza macrolepis (Mullet)[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7"Diet of the Black-faced Spoonbill Wintering at Chiku Wetland in Southwestern Taiwan", Yih-Tsong Ueng, Jen-Jiun Perng, Jiang-Ping Wang, Jug- Hsuan Weng, and Ping-Chun Lucy Hou, Waterbirds 29(2):185-190. 2006
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0