This brilliantly colored Roseate Spoonbill is a migratory wading bird that frequents the Florida Everglades. It’s a large member of the ibis family. This one was hunting alone when I took this picture. They feed while wading in the shallow water, sweeping their wide gray bill back and forth through the water. Something very intriguing to me about this bird is that much like the alligator, it has sensors inside the mouth that are sensitive to texture that causes the beak to snap shut upon impact. So if a fish bumps into those sensors while swimming past the beak…”WHACK!” it’s gone. The pink color comes from eating crustaceans that have fed on algae. Usually you’ll see these large pink birds in a large group which is ironically called a “bowl”. A bowl of Roseate Spoonbills.