Brevard Zoo Receives New Roseate Spoonbill Chick
By Space Coast Daily // August 9, 2015
Spork is not currently on exhibi
BREVARD COUNTY • VIERA, FLORIDA – Meet Spork, Brevard Zoo’s roseate spoonbill chick.
Spork is not currently on exhibit but you may see this pink fluff-monster greeting Zoo guests with our keepers.
The roseate spoonbill is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae.
It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, the Gulf Coast of the United States [2][3] and on central Florida’s Atlantic coast Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge adjoined with NASA Kennedy Space Center.
