Birds · La Saladita, Guerrero

Roseate Spoonbill

Platalea ajaja

Spanish: Espátula rosada

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
Photographed by edgar-maldonado on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) - sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaia - is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the Gulf Coast of the United States, and from central Florida's Atlantic coast at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, adjoined with NASA Kennedy Space Center at...

TaxonomyAves › Pelecaniformes › Threskiornithidae
Local records159 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records41,236 on iNaturalist
Most recent records2026 – 2026
Months of the 8 most recent records
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Recent local sightings

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Cite as: “Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/platalea-ajaja/, updated 2026-10-18. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.