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  1. A group of Roseate Spoonbills flying over the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refugee.
    Their bright #pink feathers make them very clear against the white #clouds and blue #sky.
    #RoseateSpoonbills gain their pink coloration from eating a certain crustacean containing a pigment. Flamingos gain the color from the same process.
    #Bird, #BirdsOfMastodon, #MerrittIslandNationalWildlifeRefuge, #MINWR, #NationalWildlifeRefuge, #Waterfowl, #FlyingBirds, #PlataleaAjaja, #Photography, #WildlifePhotography, #Photograph, #Photo
    heronfox.pixels.com/featured/r

  2. "Don’t get the wrong idea: #RoseateSpoonbills aren’t failing. Their numbers are better in Florida than they’ve been in decades. They’re just not nesting in Florida Bay, the Everglades’ southernmost point, anymore. The species is undergoing a #RangeShift. "

    #ClimateChange
    audubon.org/magazine/winter-20