Yellow-billed Spoonbill © 2004 Brian Furby

Sexes similar, male has longer bill. Adults: Breeding: General plumage is white, with black tips to inner flight feathers. Face, naked and fleshy with narrow black border. Eye, yellow. Bill, straight with spoon-shaped tip, pale yellow with fine transverse caruncles. Base half of upper mandible and all of the lower mandible have narrow black lines running out from the central ridge to bill edge. Legs and feet, pale yellow with black joints. Blue tinge on face. Spiny white nuptial plumes on breast. Non-breeding: Lack plumes and blue tinge on face. Immatures: Face, flesh-yellow without border line. Bill, flesh-yellow. Downy Young: White. Bill, face and feet, flesh.

Vagrant to New Zealand.

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