Eurasian spoonbillLöffler Platalea leucorodia
Family: Ibises and spoonbills
A large white waterbird with black legs and a long, flat bill that widens into a spoon at the tip; adults show a yellowish breast patch and, in the breeding season, a shaggy crest. Spoonbills feed by sweeping the half-open bill from side to side through shallow water. They returned to Germany as a breeding bird on the North Sea coast in the 1990s and are still spreading.