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African Spoonbill
Platalea alba · Family Threskiornithidae
Platalea alba
Family Threskiornithidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 139,049
- Countries and territories with records
- 60
About this species
This species has 139,049 occurrence records from 60 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (71.7%), Kenya (11.1%), Botswana (3.7%), Tanzania (2.7%) and Namibia (2.2%); together they account for 91.4% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Platalea alba combines the genus name Platalea with the species epithet alba. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Platalea; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Platalea leucorodia, Platalea ajaja and Platalea regia.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Threskiornithidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Eudocimus albus. Its record count is 40.8% of the family average (340,925). The family Threskiornithidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.