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Habitat
Throughout range, breeds in variety of marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats. Along coast, in bays, inlets, estuaries, mangroves, marshes, and beaches; inland, in marshes, forested swamps, rivers, lakes, and wet prairies. Nests primarily on islands (natural, spoil, mangrove keys, barrier islands) or over standing water in trees and shrubs; also on ground in Texas. See Breeding: nest site, below.
Feeds in shallow water in variety of hypersaline, marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats on coast and inland, including coastal bays, estuaries, lagoons, sea grass meadows, marsh, wet prairies (Everglades, llanos in South America), swamps (including mangrove), canals, tidal mudflats, tidal pools, sloughs, lakes, ponds, river drainages, mosquito control impoundments, catfish and crayfish ponds at farms, cattle ponds, and roadside ditches and puddles. See Food habits: feeding, below.
Dumas, Jeannette V. 2000. Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/490
