Herons and Bitterns fly with a fold in the neck, the head being drawn in; Ibises and Spoonbills fly with the neck straight, the head being extended.
Spoonbills build a rude nest of sticks in mangrove bushes or small trees and lay three to five whitish eggs speckled with shades of brown.
That is the reason so few of us spoonbills are to be found in certain localities now-a-days, Florida especially.
The Spoonbills and Ibises constitute a homogeneous family of Herodiones, which have a wide distribution over the earth's surface, although mostly prevalent within intertropical limits.
Of theSpoonbills only one is Neotropical, and that is met with throughout the southern portion of South America.
In addition to keeping warm by running about the young spoonbills are hovered and warmed at regular intervals by the parent.
Soon both spoonbills flew off across the lagoon and disappeared, but the male returned promptly, alighting quietly near the margin of the pond.
The tundra where I found the spoonbills was interlaced as far as the eye could see with little lagoons and long channels of water, and in this territory I collected the two spoonbills.
As far as my observations went, there was no attempt on the part of the parent to feed the young, and it is my belief that from the time they are hatched the young spoonbills hunt their own food.
Ibises and Spoonbills fly with the neck fully extended.
Spoonbills travel and nest in communities; their flight is strong and Heron-like, but they carry their neck fully extended, their ample wings slowly beating the air.
This double report put to flight all the spoonbillsand cranes, and the lake was soon perfectly deserted.
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