Animation of Black-faced Spoonbill Preening

Scientific Name: Platalea minor

This migratory visitor to Okinawa is an Endangered Species.

Location: Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan

Nature of Politics: Presented by Three Birds

Black-faced Spoonbills Discussion

Left Bird: My way or, I crap on this rock.

Right Bird: My way or, I crap on this rock.

Middle Bird: Quit arguing or, I crap on this rock.

End of the Day

The birds fly off  and, they are still friends.

Mother Nature has to clean the crap off the rock.

That's a crappy Tweet or Facebook post you could send everybody ! 

Black-faced Spoonbill

Wildlife Photo: Black-faced Spoonbill in Flight

Camera:  Pentax K3

Lens:  Sigma 50-500 at 310mm

Exposure:  f/9   1/1000   ISO 400

Location:  Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan

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Wildlife: A Black-faced Spoonbill Returned to Tomigusuku

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A tip from nature photographer, Shawn Miller, led Doc Graff and I to check it out yesterday.

Down in the Tomigusuku wetlands, we spotted this Spoonbill, probably, the first one to migrate here.

Not much of a politician, I haven't had any luck, contacting the right people to help these birds.

Scientists, would call them Platalea minor.  I just think they're ugly.

And maybe, Tomigusuku folks feel the same way.

Keep throwing garbage in the wetlands.

That way, we can eliminate this endangered species a lot faster.

Once that job is done, what should we do next ?

Maybe, start throwing ugly women in there, too !

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The Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor) is an endangered species.

These photos were taken at Tomigusuku Okinawa, Japan, today.

Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper, reported that four of the birds arrived on Okinawa Nov 8, 2012.

So, Doc and I went looking for them and snapped a few hundred pictures.

They eat small fish, crabs and anything else they can find in tidal flats.

Younger birds have pinkish-colored bills. Mature ones black.

I don't know if this guy was yawning, or just stretching his jaws.

The bird is protected in China, Japan, Taiwan, North and South Korea.

This Black-faced Spoonbill, I decided to call K96 because that's what his tag says.

The Wild Bird Society of Japan is supposed to be helping these birds.

According to ARKive, pollution could kill this endangered species.

Somebody needs to tell the people of Tomigusuku.

The place these Black-faced Spoonbills are living in, looks pretty polluted, to me.