How to Use roseate spoonbill in a Sentence
roseate spoonbill
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Is there a best time to try to spot the roseate spoonbill?
—Jeff Bollier, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
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Do not expect to be able to walk right up to the roseate spoonbill.
—Jeff Bollier, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
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As for the roseate spoonbill, the two men saw a dozen or more before day’s end.
—Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
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Woodstorks, roseate spoonbills and egrets fish the salt marsh.
—Bob Rountree, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
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In late July, a roseate spoonbill spent some time in the northeastern part of the state near Green Bay.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
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The roseate spoonbill, like the flamingo a large, pink wading bird, is more widespread in the state and is not listed as threatened.
—Curt Anderson, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
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The roseate spoonbill has a distinctive pink coloring and a wide, flat beak.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
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There are more than 360 species of birds, including the great blue heron and the diminutive green variety, purple gallinules and roseate spoonbills, the white ibis and the black skimmer.
—Allen G. Breed, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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The park’s many marshes serve as a paradise for birders, packed full of eye-catching species like wood ducks, surf scoters, and roseate spoonbills.
—Jared Ranahan, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
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Visitors may also spot sandhill cranes, roseate spoonbills, wood storks and bald eagles along the way.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
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Suggestions for a new state bird are all over the map, but four main contenders have emerged: the Florida scrub jay, flamingo, osprey and roseate spoonbill.
—Curt Anderson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
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And here was mine, rocketing past some lazily flapping roseate spoonbills, then banking hard and backpedaling.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 18 May 2020
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When Craig Watson moved to South Carolina 30 years ago, the appearance of a roseate spoonbill would draw people from hundreds of miles away hoping to get a glimpse of the exotic bird.
—Anders Gyllenhaal, sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2019
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At the turn of the 20th century, Florida’s women’s clubs campaigned against the hunting of birds such as the roseate spoonbill and egret for their feathers, which had been used to decorate women’s hats during the Gilded Age.
—Sylvia Gurinsky, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
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Many come to see the colorful roseate spoonbill, which thrive in an area considered the nation’s largest undeveloped mangrove ecosystem.
—Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2020
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The Indigo Trail is another popular birding site, where at certain parts of the four-mile trail birds like ibises and colorful roseate spoonbills can be seen.
—Visit Florida, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
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Safe at the zoo At Zoo Miami, flamingos, as well as roseate spoonbills, were moved to a temporary enclosure in a hurricane-resistant structure at the zoo.
—Doug Criss, CNN, 11 Sep. 2017
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Outdoors, a handful of other species—including cranes, flamingoes, roseate spoonbills and cassowaries—can be seen in enclosures.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
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Navigating its treacherous edges, Luis pauses in front of a patch of mangroves, having spotted a roseate spoonbill, a close relative of the flamingo.
—Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2023
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Even roseate spoonbills fell just slightly below a dismal average, which is better than plunging even lower.
—Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
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Less rain also concentrates wildlife at watering holes, boosting your odds of spotting the Everglades’ iconic alligators and wading birds like the bright-pink roseate spoonbill.
—Sarah L. Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2023
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After being almost exterminated by plume hunters in the late 1800s, roseate spoonbills have made a remarkable (though incomplete) comeback.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
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Spot gentle West Indian manatees hovering below the surface, roseate spoonbills feeding near the water’s edge and the occasional bald eagle circling above in search of marsh rabbits.
—Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
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Port Aransas' marshy nature preserves and estuaries are havens for hundreds of bird species, including pelicans, ducks, and the majestic roseate spoonbill, the destination's flamingo-pink official bird.
—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2023
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Away from Florida, roseate spoonbills are considered rare anywhere in North Carolina and especially so at inland locations.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 30 May 2018
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Reviving southern marshes could help revive wading bird populations, particularly roseate spoonbills that have begun leaving Florida Bay where the historically nested.
—Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 5 June 2018
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