Black-faced Spoonbill

Order - Pelecaniformes 鹈形目
Family - Threskiornithidae 鹮科 (Ibises, Spoonbills)
Genus - Platalea 琵鹭属

Black-faced Spoonbill

Platalea minor

黑脸琵鹭

    Size : 60–78.5 cm; Wingspan 110 cm

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Monotypic (Temminck and Schlegel, 1849, Japan)
  – Breeding currently known only from NE Russia (S Primorsky Krai), N & S Korea, and NE China (Liaoning; suspected elsewhere in NE China). Winters in Vietnam, S China, Hainan and Taiwan, occasionally in Japan; recent records from Thailand, Philippines, Macau and inland China. Formerly more widespread breeder in E Asia, range now much reduced.

Date : 04 January 2015
南生围, 元朗区, 新界, 香港
Nam Sang Wai, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong