The black-faced spoonbill is a large white wading bird with a distinctively shaped beak-looking like a spoon or a pi pa.
Additionally, the population of oriental stork, white spoonbill and hooded crane were over 1% of the global geographical population.
As the water level falls, birds begin to gather. Herons, egrets and cormorants mingle with a far rarer visitor, the black-faced spoonbill.
