hoary spoonbill

[Frances Karttunen]

I think the identification "roseate spoonbill" is specifically of  
tla:uhquecho:olli 'red quechol'  (the first element being tla:huitl,  
referring to the color of red ochre or firelight).  Another  
identification of tla:uchquecho:lli has been flamingo.  The  
quecho:lli element refers to the neck of the bird, both the spoonbill  
and the flamingo swinging their heads back and forth on their long  
necks as they search water for food.

Anyway, if hoary is taken literally to refer to frost, a hoary  
spoonbill would have to be an albino.  :-)

Fran, an observer of many a roseate spoonbill feeding at the Decker  
Lake water treatment plant east of Austin
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