It was smaller than the other lagoons I have described and much shallower, so that the big birds, such as the stork, wood-ibis, crested screamer, and the great blue ibis, called vanduria, and the roseate spoonbill, could wade almost all over it without wetting their feathers.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
What, that thing like a Chinese tumbler-that peg of old clothes-that one foot square of mortality, with an aquatic-volucrine face, like a spoonbill?
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
The fish reporter is told, however, if it be summer, that there cannot be much doing in the way of caviar until fall, "when the spoonbill start coming in."
"Walking-Stick Papers"
Robert Cortes Holliday