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Eurasian Spoonbill🦩

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SpeciesPelecaniformesThreskiornithidae
Birds

🦩Eurasian Spoonbill

Platalea leucorodia Linnaeus, 1758

La espátula común (Platalea leucorodia)​ es una especie de ave pelecaniforme de la familia Threskiornithidae,​​ propia de Eurasia y África. Es un ave acuática zancuda de gran tamaño, de plumaje principalmente blanco, que se caracteriza por la forma de su pico: largo y aplanado con un ensanchamento romo en la punta, al que debe su nombre común actual. Sin embargo, durante la Edad Media y el Renacimiento se la conocía con el nombre de averramía.​

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.87 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Spoonbill

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.87 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.12 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.36 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.19 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
30 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
1.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian Spoonbill yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyThreskiornithidae
  6. ›genusPlatalea
  7. ›speciesPlatalea leucorodia
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyThreskiornithidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyThreskiornithidae
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Closest relative on this site
🦩 Glossy Ibis — last shared an ancestor ≈ 47 million years ago.
In other languages
Warzęcha zwyczajna (pl), כפן מצוי אירופאי (he), Spatule blanche (fr), 노랑부리저어새 (ko), Platalea leucorodia (es), kanalasgém (hu) … and 27 more languages
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