Birds of Sandy Point & Shallow Inlet

Yellow-billed Spoonbill at Shallow Inlet

COMMON NAME: Yellow-billed Spoonbill

CATEGORIES: Inlet

Yellow-billed Spoonbills are creamy white birds with pale yellow spoon-shaped bills.

They feed in shallow water at the inlet, sweeping their bills from side to side to detect small prey.

Usually only single birds are seen at the inlet, often in the company of Royal Spoonbills or other wading birds.

Occasional visitors to the inlet, they can stay for many months once here.

*These Local Notes are provided by
Leanne Cusack & Diane Carpenter

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For more information about this bird’s identification, as well as its song or call, location, habitat, behaviour, feeding, breeding, and conservation status, visit …

Species profile on Atlas of Living Australia

GALLERY photos taken in and around Sandy Point & Shallow Inlet.

*Photographed by Leanne Cusack (unless otherwise credited)

Yellow-billed Spoonbill with a group of Royal Spoonbills at Shallow Inlet

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