Editing Roseate spoonbill (section)

==Distribution==
In the United States, the species is locally common in [[Texas]], [[Florida]], and southwest [[Louisiana]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2014-11-13 |title=Roseate Spoonbill |url=https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/roseate-spoonbill |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=Audubon |language=en}}</ref> Generally, the species occurs in South America mostly east of the [[Andes]], and in coastal regions of the [[Caribbean]], [[Central America]], [[Mexico]], and the [[Gulf Coast of the United States]],<ref name=Audubon>{{cite web|title=Roseate Spoonbill|work=Waterbird Conservation|publisher=National Audubon Society|url=http://web1.audubon.org/waterbirds/species.php?speciesCode=rosspo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024171610/http://web1.audubon.org/waterbirds/species.php?speciesCode=rosspo|archive-date=2008-10-24|access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref><ref name=BNA>Dumas, Jeannette V. 2000. [http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/490 Roseate Spoonbill (''Platalea ajaja'')], The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 2009-11-12. {{Subscription required}}</ref> and from central Florida's Atlantic coast<ref>{{cite journal|last=Graham Jr.|first=Frank|title=Birds: A Wing and a Prayer|journal=Audubon Magazine |date=July–August 2001|pages=87–91}}</ref> at [[Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge]], adjoined with NASA [[Kennedy Space Center]] at least as far north as South Carolina's [[Myrtle Beach]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/natural-world/at-huntington-beach-state-park-in-murrells-inlet-south-carolina-a-menagerie/|title=Huntington Beach State Park in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina: White Heron, Roseate Spoonbill, American Alligator|first=Joe|last=Quinn|website=Smithsonian Magazine}}</ref>

[[Plume hunting]] in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries almost drove the roseate spoonbill to extinction.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Schools |first=Ben |date=2020-09-03 |title=The Roseate Spoonbill: A welcome presence, set to stay |url=https://www.charlestonmercury.com/single-post/2020/09/02/the-roseate-spoonbill-a-welcome-presence-set-to-stay |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=Charleston Mercury |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> However, following decades of conservation efforts, and the effects [[climate change|of climate change]], the range of the roseate spoonbill has expanded considerably in the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miles |first=Suzannah |date=2020-10-22 |title=Follow the colorful life of the roseate spoonbill {{!}} Charleston Magazine |url=https://charlestonmag.com/features/follow_the_colorful_life_of_the_roseate_spoonbill |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=CHARLESTON SC {{!}} |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> For instance, the species was recorded breeding in the state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] for the first time in 2011. Moreover, its presence in [[South Carolina]] has expanded significantly since the 1970s,<ref name=":1" /> as well as a single sighting of the bird in both Michigan and Wisconsin. The last known recorded log of the bird in the state of Wisconsin was of a deceased specimen in 1845 in Rock County. It made an historic reappearance 178 years later when a specimen was sighted by a crew that was doing birding surveys on the restricted-access Cat Island Causeway on July 27, 2023.

In the summer of 2021, sightings of the bird were reported well outside its typical range, including in [[Washington, D.C.]], [[upstate New York]], and even [[New Hampshire]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tropical Pink Bird Spotted In D.C. For The First Time (It's Not A Flamingo)|url=https://dcist.com/story/21/08/04/tropical-pink-bird-spotted-in-d-c-for-the-first-time-its-not-a-flamingo/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804181848/https://dcist.com/story/21/08/04/tropical-pink-bird-spotted-in-d-c-for-the-first-time-its-not-a-flamingo/|url-status=live|archive-date=August 4, 2021|access-date=2021-08-04|website=DCist|language=en}}</ref>  A large flock was spotted in [[Huntley Meadows Park]] in [[Fairfax County, Virginia]], drawing a large crowd of spectators.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://m.mountvernongazette.com/news/2021/aug/01/rarely-seen-spoonbills-draw-fans-huntley-meadows-p/|title = Rarely-seen Spoonbills Draw Fans to Huntley Meadows Park}}</ref>

In [[Florida Bay]], roseate spoonbills are an ecological and scientific [[Bioindicator|indicator species]]. The number of nests varies with both the amount of fresh water and the depth of seawater there, as wetlands turn into open ocean. The birds are choosing to nest further north and inland in Florida, with sharp changes in nest locations noted in the years 2006–2020.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Audubon |date=Winter 2022 |pages=18–27 |first=Hannah |last=Waters |url=https://www.audubon.org/magazine/winter-2022/the-flight-spoonbills-holds-lessons-changing |title=Flight of the Spoonbills |quote=Over the past 20 years the nesting range of Florida’s Roseate Spoonbills has shifted north … Rising seas have seeped into the birds’ historical foraging grounds in Florida Bay, driving them into shallower areas of Everglades National Park and beyond. |access-date=January 2, 2023 }}</ref>