SPOONBILL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Spoonbill

... magnificent specimen of the spoonbill bittern," groaned Venning. "If we had only brought an air-gun—for I suppose ...

— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville

... Brown and Charley, who had gone two miles lower down, told me that they had found salt-water, and deposits of very fine salt. Many lagoons were on the flats, surrounded by Polygonums, and frequented by ducks, spoonbills, and various aquatic birds. They had shot, however, only one teal and a spoonbill. In travelling down the creek, we frequently started wallabies. Geophaps plumifera was very frequent on the Ironbark ridges. A cormorant with white breast and belly, and the rose cockatoo were shot; the former tasted as well as a duck. Brown collected a good quantity of ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt