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Eurasian Spoonbill
Platalea leucorodia · Family Threskiornithidae
Platalea leucorodia
Family Threskiornithidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,329,341
- Countries and territories with records
- 132
About this species
This species has 1,329,341 occurrence records from 132 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the Netherlands (47.2%), Spain (11.8%), France (8.4%), India (5.6%) and Belgium (5.3%); together they account for 78.3% of the total. In the Netherlands, this species accounts for 0.94% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Platalea leucorodia combines the genus name Platalea with the species epithet leucorodia. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Platalea; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Platalea ajaja, Platalea regia and Platalea flavipes.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Threskiornithidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Eudocimus albus. Its record count is 3.9 times the family average (340,925). The family Threskiornithidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.