How to Use roseate spoonbill in a Sentence

roseate spoonbill

noun
  • Do not expect to be able to walk right up to the roseate spoonbill.
    — Jeff Bollier, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • As for the roseate spoonbill, the two men saw a dozen or more before day’s end.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The roseate spoonbill has a distinctive pink coloring and a wide, flat beak.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Birders will love keeping an eye out for species ranging from roseate spoonbills to wood storks to bald eagles.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Birders will love keeping an eye out for species ranging from roseate spoonbills to wood storks to bald eagles.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Visitors may also spot sandhill cranes, roseate spoonbills, wood storks and bald eagles along the way.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The tiny island is home to brown and white pelicans, roseate spoonbills, owls, ospreys, terns, herons, egrets, and other shore birds.
    — Kara Franker, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
  • And here was mine, rocketing past some lazily flapping roseate spoonbills, then banking hard and backpedaling.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 18 May 2020
  • 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
  • That winter, wood storks and roseate spoonbills did particularly well.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The brilliant pink roseate spoonbills and scores of other birds at Orlando Wetlands park.
    — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
  • My favorite was a beautiful roseate spoonbill tiptoeing across a mudflat, its bill like a spatula, its body flushed pink.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Even roseate spoonbills fell just slightly below a dismal average, which is better than plunging even lower.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Over the summer, a roseate spoonbill landed near Green Bay, Wisconsin, which was the first time anyone had seen the species alive in the state.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Last summer, a roseate spoonbill landed near Green Bay, Wisconsin, and flamingos were spotted in nearly a dozen states.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • This unusual occurrence marks the first time anyone has reported seeing a living roseate spoonbill in Wisconsin.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alongside wading birds like the roseate spoonbill and striated heron, visitors can also look forward to their fair share of passerines, with potential appearances from the blue-gray tanager and scrub blackbird.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • For a special treat, hire a charter and head out to Queen Bess Island to see thousands of nesting brown pelicans, as well as tri-colored herons, great egrets, royal terns, and the elusive roseate spoonbill.
    — Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Away from Florida, roseate spoonbills are considered rare anywhere in North Carolina and especially so at inland locations.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 30 May 2018
  • Away from Florida, roseate spoonbills are considered rare anywhere in North Carolina and especially so at inland locations.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024

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