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Black-faced Spoonbill
Platalea minor · Family Threskiornithidae
Platalea minor
Family Threskiornithidae
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Threskiornithidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 94,348
- Countries and territories with records
- 16
About this species
This species has 94,348 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (51.6%), South Korea (17.7%), China (16.6%), Hong Kong (8.7%) and Japan (3.9%); together they account for 98.6% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Platalea minor combines the genus name Platalea with the species epithet minor. 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 19th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Eudocimus albus. Its record count is 27.7% of the family average (340,925). The family Threskiornithidae belongs to the order Pelecaniformes, which has 92 species in the Warbla app catalog.