One of my fellow classmates has asked me a great question about my research on the Roseate Spoonbill. She asks, "Have you gone back to determine what the temperature was the day you took that picture? What is their preferred temperature range?
I am not sure what the temperature was for that day, my memory fails me. However, I do know from the NOAA website that the average temperature for Daytona Beach, in January was actually 3 degrees below average, at 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Roseate Spoonbill is a neotropical bird species that prefers warmer temperatures (Dumas 2000). Most of their population resides in Cuba, but they are commonly seen in the Florida everglades as it is a great foraging and nesting habitat for them.
Dumas, J. V.. 2000. Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.490
NOAA National Centers for Environmental information, Climate at a Glance: Statewide Time Series, published April 2018, retrieved on May 2, 2018 from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag
If you go to this website, you should be able to determine the temperature for any place on any date. https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDAB/2018/5/7/DailyHistory.html?cm_ven=localwx_history
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I didn't know about that source. It should come in pretty handy. It would be interesting to see exactly how low of temperatures they are tolerating when nesting and foraging.
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