EURASIAN SPOONBILL, TAGUS ESTUARY,LISBON,PORTUGAL, 9/29/2019

   These photos were taken into the sun with the spoonbill bills into the water, so we could not get good photos of the birds or their bills.  However, we can still ID these birds as Eurasian Spoonbills as follows:

• Overall white color
• Black legs
• Large bird, with stocky, thickest overall appearance
• Although we could not make out much detail of the bills, we could tell that they were long (left spoonbill in first photo)
• Merlin bird photo ID app and our guide identified this bird as a Eurasian Spoonbill

   The Eurasian Spoonbill is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 927.