The black-faced spoonbill, and all other species of spoonbill, feed by sweeping their open bill from side to side. When prey such as a fish, crustacean, or insect enter, the very sensitive bill snaps shut, and the water is pressed out through small projections on the sides of the bill, similar to how baleen functions in whales.
That’s where the phrase ‘shake a leg and I’ll spoon with you’ came from.
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I seen spoonbills on TV doing just that- pretty interesting method.
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