Roseate Spoonbills are medium-sized waterbirds with a football-shaped body and long legs. The long bill that is flattened into a spoon at the end protrudes from their small head. Roseate Spoonbills forage in the shallows of fresh, brackish, and marine waters including bays, mangroves, forested swamps, and wetlands. They nest and roost in trees and shrubs along the water's edge.
The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a small, delicately built shorebird with a fairly long neck, rounded head, and large eye. The bill is slender and short for a sandpiper bill (about the length of the head).
This is the famous bird of Europe whose voice is imitated by cuckoo clocks. A common migratory bird across most of Europe and Asia, it regularly strays to the western Alaskan islands in late spring / early summer and winters in Africa.
