Black-faced Spoonbill
Platalea minor Temminck & Schlegel, 1850
Threskiornithidae — Ibises, Spoonbills
Black-faced Spoonbill, Platalea minor, is a bird of the ibis and spoonbill family that breeds in the Palearctic, in north-east Russia, the Korean Peninsula and north-east China, and spends the non-breeding season mainly in north Vietnam, southern China and Taiwan. It was described by Temminck and Schlegel in 1850. Its range is tightly limited compared with the other spoonbills. The bird is a wader associated with coastal eastern Asia, and it uses intertidal mudflats.
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae — Ibises, Spoonbills
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: ne Russia, Korean Pen. and ne China
- Nonbreeding range
- mainly n Vietnam, s China and Taiwan
