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Eurasian Spoonbill ( Platalea leucorodia )
Description Photograph (click on the image to increase it) Various
Easily recognizable with the lengthened and flat beak. The plumage is of colour white cremate. They are very silent birds which fly there V or on-line oblique ( the tense neck). Eurasian Spoonbill The beak is of use to him for sieving the mud to find there its food. The Spoonbill is a migratory bird who from quits September the districts to find tropical Africa and returns only in March - April.
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Habitat  :Lakes shallow, lagoons and zones with plans of water without too much vegetation.
Food  :Aquatic Larvas, batrachians, mollusks, worm
Size  :31.52 inch (80-93 cm) Weight  : 1-1,5 kg Wing span : 47.28 inch (120-135 cm)
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