Platalea
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Description:
Size: medium. Other details: legs long; bill flattened and expanded towards tip forming flat spoon; slight notching at tip of mandible; narrow groove from nostril along margin of upper mandible almost to tip; face naked. Feed by sweeping bill from side to side in water.
- Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.
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Statistics of barcoding coverage:
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
| Specimen Records: | 22 | Public Records: | 12 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 18 | Public Species: | 4 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 17 | Public BINs: | 4 |
| Species: | 5 | ||
| Species With Barcodes: | 5 | ||
Locations of barcode samples:
Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Platalea