How to Use spoonbill in a Sentence

spoonbill

noun

• Some bird-watchers journeyed from out of state to see the spoonbill.
  — Kyle Davidson, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2021
• The area is known for its 50 miles of sandy beaches and abundant wildlife, like egrets, roseate spoonbills, and dolphins in the gulf, Donlan said.
  — Liz Dennerlein, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
• Also, an African spoonbill chick builds a special bond with his keeper in this new episode.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• A tourist leans out of his car window to photograph a flock of white spoonbills at a watering hole.
  — National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2016
• No duck may be less coveted by hunters than the northern shoveler, but none of us would pass on this spoonbill/wigeon hybrid.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• After staying the night in Ann Arbor, the couple saw the spoonbill again early Tuesday morning.
  — Kyle Davidson, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2021
• Despite the progress spoonbills have made, their long-term outlook is not certain, biologists say.
  — Anders Gyllenhaal, sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2019
• In the winter, birdwatchers flock to the area to see the endangered black-faced spoonbill, which migrates to Taiwan from China and Korea for several months each year.
  — Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
• Cody’s Guide Service reports: spoonbill – continues to be excellent and have boated over 500 fish this year.
  — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 18 Apr. 2018
• Meanwhile, traveling spoonbills would find their marshy grassland undisturbed — far from the center of town and sheltered from people and industry by a wide buffer of farmland.
  — Douglas McGray, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2007
• While the Katy Prairie is home for a wide variety of summertime birds like spoonbills and wood storks, Gonzalez said the place also is a major stop on the migratory route for ducks and geese coming from the north during the winter.
  — Mike Glenn, Houston Chronicle, 26 Dec. 2017
• Northern shovelers, called spoonbills by most Louisiana anglers, were the only other species to improve from last year's numbers.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• Not knowing there were spoonbill in the lake, Delgado decided to do some Google searching and stumbled upon a decades-old story from the Independence Examiner.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 13 June 2018
• Privacy - Terms The large pink wader’s appearance also highlights the beginning of the annual post-breeding dispersal of southern herons, egrets, spoonbills, and storks north into the piedmont of the Carolinas.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 30 May 2018
• Cody’s Guide Service reports: spoonbill continues to be excellent.
  — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star tyler Mahoney,, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
• Beneath a canopy of mangroves and palm trees, 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, 21 June 2017
• As word circulated that spoonbills had taken up residence in Central Florida, birders, photographers and tourists started showing up.
  — Anders Gyllenhaal, sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024