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.