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Platalea ajaja (Roseate Spoonbill; Espátula rosada)

Synonyms: Ajaia ajaja; Ajaia ajaja ajaja; Ajaja ajaja; Ajaja rosea; Platea rosea

Wikipedia Abstract

The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) (sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the Gulf Coast of the United States and on central Florida's Atlantic coast Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge adjoined with NASA Kennedy Space Center.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
14
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
40
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 27.5309
EDGE Score: 3.35099
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.287 lbs (1.491 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  50 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mangroves, Coastal saltmarshes, Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread Neotropical
Wintering Habitat [2]  Wetlands, Coastal saltmarshes, Agricultural
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fish [4]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  40 %
Diet - Plants [4]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [1]  53 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  120,000
Incubation [3]  23 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [3]  28 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  30 inches (75 cm)
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Río Máximo Cuba A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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