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Spoonbill are large brilliant pink wading birds with darker pink wings. They have long red legs and bare green skin on their head. They have a broad, flattened greenish-yellow beak which widens at the tip.

 

Their habitat range from Florida through the Greater Antilles to Argentina and Chile. They inhabit marshes, swamps, ponds, and rivers. 

 

Spoonbills consume a  diet of small fish, amphibians and some plant material. They feed in the early morning and evening hours by wading through shallow water with their bills partially in the water.

As a Spoonbill walks, it swings its head back and forth in a sideways motion. When the bird feels a prey, it snaps its bill closed, pulls the prey out of the water and swallows it.