Royal Spoonbill

Platalea regia

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Pelecaniformes
Family
Threskiornithidae
Genus
Platalea
eBird Code
royspo1

Distribution

New Guinea, southwestern, northern, and eastern Australia including eastern Tasmania, Solomon Islands, and New Zealand (where self-introduced by 1860s)

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.